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Cannabis becomes legal in Canada
The Guardian ^ | Oct 17, 2018

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 ...


TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: canada; cannabis; drugwar; freedom; marijuana; medicine; plant; pot; potheads; wod
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So let me get this straight you can only possess up to 30 grams of marijuana in Canada, yet they have dispensaries that have much more than 30 grams in storage. That doesn’t make any sense to me at all. Either you completely legalized it including seeds and let the people put themselves out of touch with reality for their entire lives and then those of us who choose not to partake can take over.


21 posted on 10/17/2018 5:51:30 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Well what do you say when they see a liquor store, cigarette shop, or a payday loan shack?


22 posted on 10/17/2018 5:58:25 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: All

Dont be fooled... This is merely Step 1 and reproduction and mandatory distribution of Soma.

[WIKI] “Soma, featured in Aldous Huxley’s novels Brave New World and Island, a fictional hallucinogenic drug to keep society peaceful and happy.”


23 posted on 10/17/2018 6:00:04 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Wolfie; TheStickman; dainbramaged; beaversmom; T-Bone Texan; dljordan; Mama Shawna; NobleFree; ...

For your interest.


24 posted on 10/17/2018 6:00:43 AM PDT by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: Wolfie

CGC

I’m in


25 posted on 10/17/2018 6:01:53 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: Wolfie

Make a run for the (other) border...


26 posted on 10/17/2018 6:02:58 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Ruth Bader Ginsburg doctor is a taxidermist.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
My mother sees them and asks what they are, which I have to quell in front of our 10yo son.

Really? What is your reaction as you drive by the dozens and dozens of liquor stores? The beer/wine aisle in the supermarket?

27 posted on 10/17/2018 6:04:26 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Apparently I voted demoncrat for 40 years. They all wore 'R' jerseys! 'R'atpublicans!)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
I am pissed because it’s legal in MD, and we have 2 of these stupid “dispensaries” within 2 mi on the major strip near our home. My mother sees them and asks what they are, which I have to quell in front of our 10yo son. Still too young to hear about it, I think.

Two years ago I traveled to Washington State. I partake, and so naturally I was interested in checking out the legal shops.

I came away very unimpressed with the ones I saw; they ranged from tawdry to outright sketchy. I eventually visited one, and while its employees were nice and informative and not off-putting, there was still that element of sketchiness about the whole transaction.

If anything, the pot shops I saw in Washington had the same essence as the ol' porno shops we used to have up here in southern New Hampshire in the strip malls along route 28. Sketch City.

Pot shops don't have to be like this. In Amsterdam, the best ones are just "clean, well-lighted" places that just happen to sell grass, along with coffee and Heineken.

28 posted on 10/17/2018 6:06:17 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: Clutch Martin
[WIKI] “Soma, featured in Aldous Huxley’s novels Brave New World and Island, a fictional hallucinogenic drug to keep society peaceful and happy.”

Thanks for that wiki reference, because it's not like anyone who ever went to junior high or high school in the United States in the past 50 years is unfamiliar with Huxley's work.

29 posted on 10/17/2018 6:09:39 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost

My daughter lives near DC. It is legal to possess weed in DC but not legal to sell it. So sellers take a $100 donation in exchange for some weed....which is the same as buying.

It’s a recipe for disaster.


30 posted on 10/17/2018 6:10:32 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost
I came away very unimpressed with the ones I saw; they ranged from tawdry to outright sketchy.

In Denver the shops were very professional, but the quality of products was, shall we say, "middies".

31 posted on 10/17/2018 6:10:48 AM PDT by numberonepal (WWG1WGA)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

You know how those boys get when they’re hopped up on syrup.


32 posted on 10/17/2018 6:12:26 AM PDT by numberonepal (WWG1WGA)
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To: AppyPappy
It’s a recipe for disaster.

I agree; that's plainly stupid.

33 posted on 10/17/2018 6:12:38 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: hardspunned

I was in Aspen recently and saw only one pot shop and the place was empty. But the line at the ice cream shop was wrapped around the block.


34 posted on 10/17/2018 6:13:47 AM PDT by tuffydoodle (God's character and moral nature are absolute, eternal, and unchanging.)
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To: grania
I’m not convinced that reliance on marijuana is a good thing. It’ll take a few generations to learn the full impact on peoples health

Inhaling smoke can't be good.

35 posted on 10/17/2018 6:14:25 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

1. Drive to Detroit.
2. Head south to Canada.
3. Wait. What?


36 posted on 10/17/2018 6:14:30 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: BlackbirdSST

“Really? What is your reaction as you drive by the dozens and dozens of liquor stores? The beer/wine aisle in the supermarket?”

Maybe he says “There are lots of people who like to get steaming drunk and then get in the car and drive to the next bar for more liquor. Thousands of people are killed every year by drunk drivers. Now the drooling potheads can get high legally because being drunk and stoned in the U.S. is a really popular form of recreation.”


37 posted on 10/17/2018 6:19:01 AM PDT by tuffydoodle (God's character and moral nature are absolute, eternal, and unchanging.)
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To: Wolfie

This is going to be fun. A bunch of Americans are going to go up there, get some pot and Brador, and see signs that say ‘Speed Limit 100’.


38 posted on 10/17/2018 6:19:02 AM PDT by real saxophonist (You can play a shoestring if you're sincere. - John Coltrane)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost

Spain did that in the 80’s or 90’s and we had to send in Special Forces to train the Paramilitary to handle the drug problems.


40 posted on 10/17/2018 6:30:39 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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