Posted on 10/17/2018 5:31:41 AM PDT by Wolfie
Cannabis becomes legal in Canada
Country becomes second and largest with legal national marketplace.
The Canadian government is ready to pardon those with a cannabis possession record of 30 grams or less as the country becomes the world’s second and largest country with a legal national marijuana marketplace.
Canada legalizes marijuana: here's everything you need to know Read more A federal official said Canada would pardon people with convictions for possessing up to 30 grams of marijuana, the new legal threshold, with a formal announcement due later on Wednesday.
The use of medical marijuana has been legal in Canada since 2001 and Justin Trudeau’s government has spent two years working toward expanding that to include recreational marijuana. The goal is to better reflect society’s changing opinion about marijuana and bring black market operators into a regulated system.
Uruguay was the first country to legalise marijuana, in 2013.
Legalisation began at midnight with shops in Canada’s eastern-most provinces the first to sell the drug.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
“well, given I despise smoking and drinking and drugging up, in my little world they’d all be illegal.”
I 100% agree with you. What good do cigarettes, alcohol and illegal drugs (including marijuana) do for society? Does it make society better or is it dragging people down? In the small town I live in, we’ve had at least 10 families effected by drunk drivers, one was a mother and daughter killed by a drunk illegal. I’m a teetotaler and have been for many years. Once you’ve been to a Christmas party and everyone is wasted except for you and you see how they act, it should make most responsible people give up the booze.
Sure, it’s bad for you. Sugar is bad for you, a Big Mac is bad for you. But freedom means people get to do bad things to themselves if they want to.
“After all, much older and wiser people have been e.g., banning obscenity, “porn”, drugs and so on since the Founding (including “disarm yourselves at the courthouse” which 2A types pshaw at every new version). At least on a local scale.”
There was no marijuana prohibition anywhere in the US until the Progressives came along, and no national prohibition until FDR and the New Deal.
Speaking of 2A, federal anti-RKBA are all based on the same fraudulent Wickard Commerce Clause that allows fedgov to impose mj prohibition at the state and local level.
Nonsense.
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