Many provinces have a long history with government run liquor stores (see LCBO in Ontario, BC Liquor in BC, SAQ in Quebec). There are pro's and con's to those stores.

Nice to know, thanks, I've never head about this phenomenon before, used to think government run stores only exist in officially communist countries like China.

State liquor stores have been a thing in parts of the US, too.

New Brunswick's stores look like Apple stores complete with iPads on wooden tables to browse their catalog.

https://twitter.com/CBCNB/status/1052536817864626176?s=09

Official site: http://cannabis-nb.com

See Quebec province online store for pot: https://www.sqdc.ca/en-CA/ which launched this morning.

Online from October 17th

in Canada only

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It is already how it works for alcohol and gambling. Makes sense that drugs would also be sold by the government.

Also, prostitution is legal in Canada. What's the next government monopoly, I wonder...?

> Also, prostitution is legal in Canada.

Being a prostitute is legal but buying her services is not. It's just because we want prostitutes to call the police if they get hurt or something like that.

Don't they use to abuse this weird law to blackmail their clients?

Not if they want more clients.

Plus, prostitutes, dur to the nature of their services, already tend to have blackmail info on many of their (especially married) clients, so if blackmail was going to be their business model, they don't need this law.

You jest but chances are high that if brothels are ever legalized nationally, the government will control it.

That's not new, in North Carolina every hard liquor store (ie not wine or beer) is owned and run by county level agencies.