text: Everyone keeps criticizing the number of initial stores the LCBO will open. The real constraint will be the production of the product. Why open stores that will have no product?
  
  Its unrealistic to expect that the black market will be shut down overnight. It will take years and even then,  just as we have a black market in tobacco and liquor, a residual market will remain. 
  
  We would be better to focus our attention on the safety of the legal supply. Use of harmful pesticides, herbicides and other products used in production should be a major concern.