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Cannabis is legal in Canada: What you need to know

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Post by lmm »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #72
chrisweekly wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tangent: when did "Czechia" become a recognized short form of "Czech Republic"? (I lived and worked in Prague in the late 90's and before today had never come across "Czechia".)

Some years ago but I'm really surprised there are people who care about whether the words they use are officially "recognized".

I don't particularly care about what's official so much as what people use in conversation, but seeing the name of a country change within my own lifetime is an unusual and interesting experience.

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Post by bregma »

ovulator wrote: post #109
drawkbox wrote: post #12

Canada is leading in personal freedoms and new markets with this move, ending cannabis prohibition that is long overdue and a step in ending the drug wars. The policy change regarding viewing drugs not as criminal but decriminalized and a health issue where needed, is the safer thing to do in a regulated market that will improve safety for recreational use and harm reduction. The War on Drugs started as an attack on…

What markets? Canada can only sell to itself. California has a larger population than Canada does.

39 million vs. 36 million. Not a big enough difference to matter.

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Post by 131012 »

saiya-jin wrote: post #112
706f6f70 wrote: post #55

The really interesting studies will be longitudinal IMO. It's almost certainly not going to be another tobacco, but it strikes me as impossible that smoking marijuana is harmless. Should also be interesting to see what marijuana culture develops when the entire country is allowed to consume it legally.

It certainly isn't completely harmless, very few things are. Subjective perspective - smoking is really bad, can be dramatically improved with good vaping but its still harmful. One of the great side effects of legalization - health-conscious people have less damaging options for consumption. Eliminated by eating the material, but then effects are a bit different. There have been some rumors on lower sperm count/lowe…

Munchies can be about eating anything. Just make sure you got plenty of fruits and veggies or go for a long session of oral sex. Nobody ever got in bad shape for eating a full bag of baby cut carrots or a whole tray of peaches.

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Post by skofgar »

bregma wrote: post #92
cmrdporcupine wrote: post #56

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You have no rights at the border.

Or within 100 miles of the border or any border services control point, like say an airport with international flights.

So no-one in San Francisco has any rights b/c it's within 100 miles from SFO ;)?

- I'm just kidding..

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Post by bregma »

dh-g wrote: post #136
49para wrote: post #105

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"Canada is leading in personal freedoms", perhaps in weed laws, not in free speech etc.

Any examples in regards to free speech?

Can't give any because there are Government Agents just waiting to pounce if I do.

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Post by doombolt »

bregma wrote: post #170
doombolt wrote: post #145

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You seriously do not think that you can override Human Rights agreements with some "congress bill", do you? For some time you might act that way, but you are trespassing. There is no right to cross the border, but there's loads of other rights, human and otherwise, that you still undeniably have while being at the border.

The legislation I linked to suspends all constitutionally-guaranteed rights "at" the border (ie within 100 miles of a border crossing, including any airports with international flights) if you are not an American citizen. The suspension of constitutional rights has been tried and upheld by a number of SCOTUS cases. There is no international body regulating any other kind of right, despite the well-meaning intention o…

If you are not an American citizen you are still a citizen of some other country, which has its own obligations before its citizens to uphold their human rights, even when they cross someone other's border.

This may end up ugly for the USA if they try to abuse that decision. Not every country in this world is Mexico.

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Post by bregma »

refurb wrote: post #143
stan_rogers wrote: post #61

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It was worse before Brewers' Retail (the name before The Beer Store). You needed to go to Molson for Molson, Labatt's for Labatt's, Carling for Carling, Dow for Dow, etc., and there was nowhere to buy anything brewed in Canada but not in Ontario since the LCBO could only sell international imports (by written order, with nothing on display).

If anyone has watched the move “Strange Brew”, that’s exactly what the LCBO stores looked like in the 1980’s. No advertisements, no product on the shelves, just a person standing at a register taking orders and you case of beer magically arriving on a conveyor belt. Weird to think about now.

That's what the Beer Stores looked like (and still do where I live). The LCBO stopped looking like that in the 1970s, except no conveyor belt: they would hand you your package in a brown paper bag, and you had to sign your order form. Also, the LCBO did not sell beer because that monopoly went to Brewer's Retail.

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Post by Raphmedia »

abledon wrote: post #159
plehoux wrote: post #108

If you are interested to see what/how the products are marketed, see the SQDC website from Quebec province: https://www.sqdc.ca/en-CA/ 1g = ~CAD$5

Quebec gov websites have great web design . The saaq also is a great example

They are done by web agencies and not in-house by the government.

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Post by shittyadmin »

mikestew wrote: post #150
shittyadmin wrote: post #104

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> The initial tax rates for pot will be much lower, but should increase steadily year-over-year. Alcohol taxes continue to rise every year. The problem is they've got to play this game very carefully right now as the black market is still well established and providing to many people. They need to both drop prices (which should happen once more supply spins up) and start raiding illegal dispensaries and mail order sh…

Meh, what people say on reddit and what they do are two different things. Folks might hold out for a bit, but I imagine most folks will pay the “convenience fee” and pop down to the shop on the way home from work. As a WA resident, at this point if I had to go tracking down a dealer, I’d go back to not smoking.

A lot of people currently use illicit mail order services, which puts it pretty much at the same level of convenience as government run online shops at the moment.
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