Canada is on track to legalise marijuana for recreational use within months, an MP has said.
We’re working closely with the senate and we feel confident, at this
time, in that timeline of end of summer that we’re going to see a regime
that will control and legalise cannabis,” he told Canadian television programme The West Block.
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It'd be nice to buy weed like alcohol & cigarettes and also know what you're getting in the process.
I hope the competition brings down the price. The cbd I'm taking for anxiety is not cheap
If Scotland would have become independant I'm sure we would have been on track for that too.
The UK being one of the larger exporters of medicinal cannabis, it's fucking ridiculous most talks are shut down shortly after they begin.
Is the British climate just perfect for marijuana? Thanks Gulf Coast.
I can see the UK either never legalizing it or being one of the last countries in the world to do it. The conservatives, old people voters, and the general attitude for it is making it near impossible. Decades to go until progress.
I'm happy for you leafs!
It's kind of unfortunate that the provinces are being given responsibility to determine how it's sold. I say this because some provinces are bound to fuck it up, like Ontario deciding to hold a provincial monopoly on weed the same way they do alcohol. I'm sure the LCBO will see lots of people going in for legal weed, but street dealers will probably see more traffic as people will be able to take an ounce home without worrying about legal consequences.
Meanwhile, watch for BC's economy to grow practically immediately after the law changes. It's effectively legal in Vancouver already; legalization will allow the city to properly license, regulate, and tax the dispensaries which are, currently, operating illegally while the city deliberately looks the other way.
Maple leafs and Marry leafs
SNP have been pushing for legalisation for medicinal use, which would no doubt lead to full legalisation in the future. Unfortuantely as it stands right now Scotland has no control over its drug policy and there's very little chance of the power ever being devolved, which is all kinds of horse shit.
If anyone has actually looked at the laws for every province, they're all combining the worst of tobacco and alcohol control laws and applying them to pot. Federal government says mandatory plain packaging with health warnings about pot causing psychosis, and you can put your brand name on it, but it must be no more than like 3 colours and they all have to be flat. Also, no more than 30 grams on you at a time, no more than 30 grams purchased at a time, and also the blood THC levels they plan to mandate are so low that apparently everyone who takes medical is going to be medically disqualified from driving because their THC levels will always be too high. Basically a daily pot user will be unable to drive. They're also allowing the police to perform roadside impairment checks for pot and booze with no probable cause, which is a blatant violation of the Charter, and just about every lawyer has said that they'll fight it in court.
Then every province is treating it like hard liquor. In Ontario, it's only going to be sold by the government at government-run stores. Unless the Conservatives get in, then the wishy-washy possibly former hash dealer in charge of them, Doug Ford, brother of late former crack-smoking Toronto mayor Rob Ford, has said that maybe he'll think about allowing private sales possibly, which has actually got the most prominent pot activist in the country, Mark Emery, to say that if he does do that then he'll campaign for him and do everything he can to get him elected. But at the moment it looks like it's going to be the government selling it, and they're going to charge too much to actually be able to tackle the illicit market. They're also going to ban you from smoking it in apartments and in public. The in public because you can't drink booze in public (which is also fucking stupid) and the in apartments because you can't smoke cigarettes in an apartment if the landlord tells you so, so that one I support, because smoke can fuck shit up, even if it's "not as bad" as cigarette smoke. Just buy edibles.
I honestly think our approach is going to cause an increase in problems massively.
Goddamn, sounds mostly like hell. I would much rather wait for a better piece of legislation.
The 30 gram possession law is only is only in public places as far as I know, at least based off BC's laws. I don't mind the plain packaging and warning labels, especially since at least here in BC, dispensaries here have been able to sell themselves through other branding methods like merch, ads and generally being pretty high-end places, and I'm sure cig manufactures would go nuclear if they didn't have to do that. Hello 4:20 "Tranquilly Break" radio ad from one of the ones here. Also don't see what's so bad about the public space one for Ontario since it can get annoying as hell if you go out somewhere for fresh air and instead get smoke which to some people really smells ( Here in BC people seem to get madder at you if you do that with cigs compared to weed). Traffic stop one is still stupid since the actual effects of it and how that compares to THC readings is really unknown still.
Even cigs don't have restrictions on branding, and frank;y I think plain packaging laws in general violate Section 2 of the Charter because they infringe on the company's right to express itself through its branding.
And don't forget, you're in public when you leave the pot shop and until you get home, meaning 30 grams is the most you can legally buy at any time.
And I hate smelling that shit in public too, frankly I hate cigarettes as well, but I'm of two minds on that. The side of me that hates smoking wants it banned in public altogether, but the side of me that loves individual freedoms hates the idea of banning people from doing shit unless it has a very demonstrably negative effect on people. Smoking in an apartment has a demonstrably negative effect on the apartment, which in turn negatively affects the landlord, but in the city especially the air you breathe is more polluted than any of the secondhand smoke you briefly breathe passing a smoker, even if it does smell a lot worse and make me cough every time I pass a smoker. I'm glad they banned smoking on bar/restaurant patios though, since the exposure is much higher compared to just passing someone on the street, and that disgusting smell can really ruin your experience. Though I do think they should allow "smoking sections" so long as they're properly hermetically isolated or in an establishment that exists explicitly to cater to smokers, like a cigar club. Bear in mind that Ontario's smoking law banning smoking indoors that doesn't contain an exception for businesses related specifically to smoking also affects hookah lounges and shisha parlours, because the law bans that shit too.
I believe the government is looking into generic branding for cigarettes still.
And despite how much I hate cigarettes, I fundamentally oppose it. It is a violation of Section 2(b) of the Charter.
Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
(a) freedom of conscience and religion;
(b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
(c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
(d) freedom of association.
Their brand is an expression of themselves as a company, and therefore it is, or at least should be, constitutionally protected under the right to freedom of opinion and expression.
Of course Section 1 of the Charter means that the Supreme Court could literally just ignore this anyways, because Section 1 basically gives the Supreme Court an override to the rest of the constitution, and imposes no actual procedure for when or how that override is to be used. So far the only test they have as to whether to apply Section 1's override is the Oakes Test, but that's just court policy based on precedent and an agreement amongst the judges on the bench, it's not required by law and can be ignored if they so choose.
There are 3 sections of the Charter that I think should be repealed because they fundamentally undermine the purpose of the entire document. Section 1, which is a judicial override of the entire Charter, Section 33 which is a parliamentary override of the most important parts of the Charter, and Section 15(2) which is an affirmative action exception to 15(1)'s declaration of equality.
Oh cool, its finally happening. It always seem to be pushed back further and further.
Up to $300 for a tiny bottle out here in Bumshart, NM, and I even paid $50~ for "100mg" concentration. Didn't notice any difference, can't afford any higher concentrations than that, might as well just stick to smoking. :/
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