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If you are interested to see what/how the products are marketed, see the SQDC website from Quebec province: https://www.sqdc.ca/en-CA/

1g = ~CAD$5

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Quebec gov websites have great web design . The saaq also is a great example

They are done by web agencies and not in-house by the government.

That's nice to hear, I did one of them :)

Cool, I’m curious what the backend stack was ? Java, c# ?

No it's a huge Wordpress application. Started in 2016 and released in 2017. It's not ideal but it ended up being great. A huge part of the website is actually blog posts so it was a good match. I did not start the project and choose the tech but I ended up doing a large part of the project and led it when the lead dev quit (for unrelated reasons). I had lots of problems with the government hoster (CSPQ) but it all worked out in the end. It's the CALQ's website by the way.

Php niiice , I love when critical government infra runs on the most despised languages on HN

It's not a critical infrastructure at all, it's just an info portal. It used to be a full html website made with Microsoft Frontpage by one lady who works there. We use PHP so that instead of a single huge html page filled with info which is useless for 90% of the people who'd read it, we ask your profile and then we filter only the relevant information.

SAAQ,SAQ and Revenue Quebec too, but not all govt sites.

The immigration site of Quebec govt. sucks with huge down times, bad UX and even data loss of many aspiring skilled economic immigrants. May be because its for immigrants and temporary workers, so no one cares.

Which would be around 1.5 to 2 times the street price depending on what deals you had before legalization.¹

It is however on par with what medical pricing was.

¹According to what I have heard around. I have never purchased it from the street.

Not really, maybe if bought in bulk. 5$ for 1g seems pretty competitive with black market.

Most users I know are heavy users (both recreational and medical) and buy once monthly. So that has to be bulk pricing. AFAIK, the government store doesn't offer bulk discounts.