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Cannabis is legal in Canada: What you need to know

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Post by cheeko1234 »

thedaemon wrote: post #153
jgrahamc wrote: post #10

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Are you implying that marijuana is "not harmful" and "can improve your quality of life"?

It improves my quality of life. I use it daily to keep my anxiety down. I do not use it during work. I am a productive and happy person! But just like any substance, it can be abused. Thank goodness I do not drink alcohol anymore though. That stuff ruined me. It's a depressant which just made my anxiety and depression worse and almost ended my marriage.

Thanks for this comment. I was thinking of replacing it with alcohol due to legality but this gives me second thoughts...

Although it'd be nice to not need anything, but it helps so much with anxiety (and other stuff).

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Post by creep »

abledon wrote: post #163
creep wrote: post #59

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I like this point. Marijuana triggered my first series of psychoses, before which point I enjoyed it while listening to music and hanging out with friends like almost everyone else. Unfortunately, there are too many cases like this to classify weed as "not harmful". I also know of at least two people who almost smoked their life away. They'd be smoking ounces a week, or more, just listening to music, eating and sleep…

You could also say a similar situation could happen with alcohol. Note said , I think in the future , 59-70 years from now healthy people will refrain from alcohol, pot knowing they both have negative consequences to themselves and their offspring

I think society understands alcohol more than we understand weed. We know what the signs of alcohol abuse look like, more or less, and we are increasingly becoming uncomfortable with our peers regularly drinking to the point of drunkenness. It's acceptable occasionally, but even in college I see kind of a trend towards people refraining from that kind of behavior.

It's completely different for pot atm. We don't understand it but still many people think it's perfectly safe and without consequence. Now that it's legalized in Canada we can start to get ourselves informed and observe the real consequences, whatever they may be. Perhaps people will choose to refrain in the future, perhaps people will have a couple joints a week similarly to how seemingly most adults partake in alcohol now.

I also want to make it clear that I don't believe pot or alcohol are without their benefits. Alcohol certainly gives me a tangible benefit when enjoyed in small amounts occasionally. I was only trying to make a point that weed is not consequence free, that we shouldn't delude ourselves into thinking it is 100% of the time.

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Post by dawnerd »

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.

Not entirely true (re: no rights)

https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone

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Post by poulsbohemian »

grecy wrote: post #4

Wow, some really interesting edge cases in there that require serious thought. US border guards might deny you entry if you admit to previous cannabis use - for them "A confession is as good as a conviction". So you can do something that is perfectly legal in Canada, then a month later be denied entry to the US for doing it. If you work at a 100% legal Government-run Cannabis store and want to go to the US for a holi…

I just had a crazy thought - so it's legal in Canada, it's legal in Washington State, but it's illegal in the eyes of the border guard separating the two because he's a US federal employee. That's seriously fascinating.

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Post by plehoux »

Raphmedia wrote: post #181
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

Which would be around 1.5 to 2 times the street price depending on what deals you had before legalization.¹ It is however on par with what medical pricing was. ¹According to what I have heard around. I have never purchased it from the street.

Not really, maybe if bought in bulk. 5$ for 1g seems pretty competitive with black market.

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Post by abledon »

simlevesque wrote: post #192
abledon wrote: post #159

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

That's nice to hear, I did one of them :)

Cool, I’m curious what the backend stack was ? Java, c# ?

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Post by arcticbull »

49para wrote: post #105
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…

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

That is the most absurd thing I've heard in a while. I grew up in Canada and live in California right now. In general, I feel speaking freely anywhere in Canada than I do in the US. Leave the country and go visit somewhere for a change.

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Post by JPKab »

clomond wrote: post #116
verelo wrote: post #88

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How is the US travel situation with Canada any different to someone coming from say the Netherlands? Regarding pilots, Transport Canada, the governing body over federal aviation regulations has explicitly come out and said use of Canabis is valid grounds for a revoked medical certificate, which is required for any pilot to fly. While the airline rules are one thing, this is a very serious implication for pilots.

One major thing that comes to mind is that cannabis is still technically illegal in the Netherlands. Instead there is a distinction of "soft drugs" and "hard drugs" and authorities follow a policy of non-enforcement in many (but not all) cases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_the_Netherlands... In Canada cannabis has become legal in a manner similar to alcohol, making the difference.

Interestingly to me, it seems that the broader international audience on HN has absolutely no idea that individual states in the USA have fully legalized and regulated cannabis.

Colorado (where I live) has done so for 4 years, and California, Nevada, to name a few, have followed suit.

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Post by biztos »

chrisweekly wrote: post #62
lupajz wrote: post #42

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Hey, person living in Czechia here. Weed is illegal here. For carrying a joint or up to 10g of weed, you can get fined up to 600USD. More than that and you might have some serious problems with police. Of course you can't smoke it in public only at home. I think it's quite a misconception about Czechia being super weed friendly. As a tourist you are most probably going to get scammed on streets of Prague. If you want…

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".)

Anecdata: in 2005 I dated a Czech who called the country "Czech" when speaking English (her third language).

Further tangent: at least part of it has been "die Tschechei" in German since 1918 per the Wiktionary[0] and that's certainly the word people used in West Germany in the 80's, and I believe it's used widely today despite "Tschechien" being official[1].

The Wikipedia article (in German) suggests Tschechei is from Čechy which seems to be Czech for Bohemia. But I am not Czech nor Cseh nor tschechisch nor Čech so I may soon stand corrected. :-)

[0]: https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Tschechei [1]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tschechien

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Post by michaelt »

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

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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".

Northern Ireland has unionist-associated and nationalist-associated names [1] - using one of them without knowing you're doing so might make people think you've got strong opinions on something you actually don't know much about.

So if you hear someone using a country name you've never heard before, I can understand being cautious about adopting it :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_names_for_Northern...

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