• Canada Legalizes Recreational Marijuana
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44543286 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0bq03JEQfA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABc8ciT5QLs
I'm pretty excited
https://ih0.redbubble.net/image.306045744.9396/flat,800x800,070,f.jpg Our neighbors of the North are FUCKING LIT
Fuck me I wish I had one of those back in my "hanging flags in my dorm room" phase
Even the existence of the dispensaries in the last few years (in BC at least) seems to have made a fair sized consumer industry. I really can't see this having many problems, only the benefit of a new job industry opening up for legal growers, sellers and merchandisers.
curious how this will affect the amount of weed being brought into the US from up north
A few important takeaways from the article: Canadians will be able to buy and consume the drug legally as early as this September. ... The bill will likely receive Royal Assent this week, and the government will then choose an official date when the law will come into force. Municipalities, provinces, and law enforcement are to be given 8-12 weeks to prepare for the changes. It's not happening yet, it's just passed the last legislative hurdle that was actually difficult to clear. It is likely that by mid-September, Canadians will be able to buy cannabis and cannabis oil grown by licensed producers at various retail locations. They will also be allowed to purchase plants and seeds from regulated retailers. Canadians across the country will be able to order marijuana online from federally licensed producers. Adults will be able to possess up to 30 grams (1 ounce) of dried cannabis in public. Edibles, or cannabis-infused foods, will not be immediately available for purchase but will be within a year of the bill coming into force. The delay is meant to give the government time to set out regulations specific to those products. The minimum legal age to buy and consume marijuana has been set federally at 18, but some provinces have chosen to set it at 19. I don't know if the terms are still the same since I haven't read the version of the bill the Senate approved and sent to the Governor-General, but the plan was for giving/selling weed to minors would be punished with up to 14 years in prison. I'm in favour of making it as restricted as alcohol and tobacco towards minors. IIRC personal growing of four plants will be allowed. The delay on edibles is logical, because it's unlikely to very improbable that an 8-year-old will find their parents' weed stash and know how to grind up a nug and take some bong tokes (unless the parents are irresponsible about doing drugs around their kids), but it's a very believable scenario that an 8-year-old will eat a brownie they found even if it's in a weird wrapper. Edibles are also a lot more potent than ingestion by smoking or vaporizing, so the impact of such an accidental dosing is that much greater. I'm not sure how they'll label edibles to keep them safe from children getting into them, or how they'll handle accidence and negligence with edibles, but I'm sure they'll figure it out. Also a reminder that, as far as I know, distribution is being left to the provinces to decide. Ontario's plans, last I heard, were to sell weed the same way they sell alcohol -- as a government-run monopoly. BC's plans, as I understand them, are to have the government be a monopoly regulatory body on growers and to operate government-run stores while also allowing private companies to compete with the provincial monopoly (which, remember, controls licensing for any growers who wish to sell to dispensaries and can make self-interested decisions). I'm sure the details will become clear for every province soon. Hopefully the provinces strike the right balance and the grey market is weakened, not strengthened and expanded, by the bureaucracy and overhead of going legit.
This is fantastic, I just hope this doesn't mean people will start smoking in public areas, even if that's not allowed (I'm sure it's only legal in private property, right?). There are some who cannot even handle second hand weed smoke.
It's about damn time. I have no interest in doing pot, but I want to grow a decorative marijuana plant and take a picture of my guns next to it just because it'll be legal to.
They're requiring plain packaging, limited branding, and no celebrity/character depictions? That's boring, I wanted to hop across the border to get some Snoop Dogg Brand(TM) Purp Skurk Dank Daddy Hash Oil OG Orange Strawberry Bubblegum Ultra Kush for Kids with 80% THC, version 2. You know, the Supreme collab sold exclusively in Canadian UNIQLO outlets.
of course Québec is thinking about being a special snowflake and now allowing to grow any plants yourself
Honestly my ideal drug laws would be this: You can grow and harvest the plant materials, but you cannot synthesize or do AB Extractions for the harder stuff. The latter bit could also just be enforced for people making over a certain limit. If you sincerely are capable of manufacturing your own narcotics, under a safe/non-harming other individuals environment, I see nothing wrong with it. Considering everything you buy will be p.much taxed, the government is not exactly losing anything.
https://sencanada.ca/en/sencaplus/news/cannabis-act/ The Senate's page is fairly informative about what is going into the law, but hasn't been updated in a couple weeks so they don't have the full text of the final bill yet. Here's an updated version of the progress bar and the extra steps (which the Senate isn't responsible for) to becoming law. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/2304/0904b55a-6be0-4186-8a15-a16a78507121/image.png The Senate page also lists the current provincial/territorial precedents/laws for recreational use, as well. According to the Senate website, as of a week ago, Quebec's bill received royal assent, so they're not just thinking about it, they're doing it. Assuming the bill that passed the Senate allows provinces to ban home cultivation, which was apparently a provision added by the Senate in the first round of readings, but that the House was set to reject before sending the bill back to the Senate.
Uuuuuuugh fucking hell.
*Cue Always sunny music* Welp, here's hoping they don't go the way of cigarettes.
We congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs.
It'll be the Canadian government who will finally win the war against illegal sellers when they start raking in shitloads of cash from regulated sales, instead of just pissing money away to try and stamp it out.
And so we take away the most basic revenue stream from organized crime in Canada and simultaneously allow the government to pull in a great amount of revenue through taxation and sales.
My mother asked me if I even considered moving to Canada and when I asked what was up she linked me this
It's been so surreal walking into convenience stores and seeing them selling bongs and stuff.
Haven't they been doing that since forever? Maybe not like, 7-11s, but all the little mom and pop convenience stores around me have had a huge cabinet full of bongs. Maybe the legeslation in Alberta is different though.
You must live in BC. I live in Alberta so walking into a Petro-Canada and seeing a glass case filled with bongs is quite unusual, and amusing. Like they aren't even behind the counter or anything, they're right in the middle of the store.
As someone who only moved to quebec three years ago, it has very strange politics.
Just FYI, I am not a legal scholar in any capacity so you should not treat this post as sound legal advice or any reliable source at all, but I read the bill and I didn't see any language that jumped out at me as describing provinces being able to prohibit people from growing their own plants (up to the limit of 4). The Senate voted against pressing the issue when the House rejected a Senate amendment that would've preserved the right for provinces to choose to ban home cultivation, so it would seem that it was not carried into the final text, and if it did it's buried in legalese subreferences that a pleb like me wouldn't recognize. TL;DR you probably can legally grow even in Quebec this winter
It's not a crime if nobody knows about it :V
I'm in Calgary, and yeah if theyre in petro-canadas now that is pretty surreal.
It's only illegal if you get caught.
If they don't legalize weed in 15 minutes we're allowed to grow it ourselves.
Thank God. I love living in Québec but sometimes we're really contrarian when it comes to dealing with the Federal government.
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