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Cannabis is legal in Canada: What you need to know

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Post by qwerty456127 »

lmm wrote: post #171
qwerty456127 wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Then you may probably be interested in knowing it's just a change in the official code (and I believe quite a number of such changes took place all over the world during your lifetime) and that it even isn't a change but an addition - the "old" name remains ("Czechia" to "The Czech Republic" is what "Mexico" is to "The United Mexican States" or what "Russia" is to "The Russian Federation"). Every Czech or other eastern-European would perfectly understand you if you'd have been using the word "Czechia" in in the past although it wasn't used much in English speech actually. I had even been using it in some semi-official texts in 2008, it wasn't invented in 2013 and wasn't any kind of unacceptable or widely-unknown before.

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Post by qwerty456127 »

plehoux wrote: post #120
qwerty456127 wrote: post #66

Government stores OMG.

See Quebec province online store for pot: https://www.sqdc.ca/en-CA/ which launched this morning.

Online from October 17th

in Canada only

Until then, why not follow us on:

www.sqdc.ca - Access Denied

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This request was blocked by the security rules

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Post by qwerty456127 »

simlevesque wrote: post #196
bregma wrote: post #183

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Also, prostitution is legal in Canada. What's the next government monopoly, I wonder...?

> Also, prostitution is legal in Canada. Being a prostitute is legal but buying her services is not. It's just because we want prostitutes to call the police if they get hurt or something like that.

Don't they use to abuse this weird law to blackmail their clients?

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Post by qwerty456127 »

giarc wrote: post #124
qwerty456127 wrote: post #66

Government stores OMG.

Many provinces have a long history with government run liquor stores (see LCBO in Ontario, BC Liquor in BC, SAQ in Quebec). There are pro's and con's to those stores.

Nice to know, thanks, I've never head about this phenomenon before, used to think government run stores only exist in officially communist countries like China.

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Post by dragonwriter »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #324
giarc wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many provinces have a long history with government run liquor stores (see LCBO in Ontario, BC Liquor in BC, SAQ in Quebec). There are pro's and con's to those stores.

Nice to know, thanks, I've never head about this phenomenon before, used to think government run stores only exist in officially communist countries like China.

State liquor stores have been a thing in parts of the US, too.

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Post by dragonwriter »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #323
simlevesque wrote: post #196

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> Also, prostitution is legal in Canada. Being a prostitute is legal but buying her services is not. It's just because we want prostitutes to call the police if they get hurt or something like that.

Don't they use to abuse this weird law to blackmail their clients?

Not if they want more clients.

Plus, prostitutes, dur to the nature of their services, already tend to have blackmail info on many of their (especially married) clients, so if blackmail was going to be their business model, they don't need this law.

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Post by shittyadmin »

mactrey wrote: post #216
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…

From personal experience (as an Oregon resident, not a drug dealer), it will be incredibly difficult for black market sellers to compete with the technology and economies of scale that large companies will bring to bear on the cannabis market. Taxes would have to be much, much higher (200%?) to allow for significant black market competition. Of course there will always be some fraction who buy "under the table" just…

I completely agree, however we just need to see that in effect - and it's not yet visible on the marketplace currently.

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Post by grkvlt »

Theodores wrote: post #75
706f6f70 wrote: post #46

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> why the experience has to be so patronisingly humiliating. It's intended to be stressful because that gets people to crack. My advice is to not take it personally unless they really push the line. The stress is part of their procedure to make sure you are not lying.

Well, on that journey I had tickets for the connecting flight which was already boarding and the flight back, not to mention a paid for room in a posh hotel (in Canada) and plenty of accompanying documents from the main Canadian broadcaster. None of these documents were chewed by the dog and a sensible human being could use common sense to see that everything was legit. However, for someone with a gun on their belt,…

If your worst border crossing experience ever is being sent to the back of a queue to fill in a form again, then i suspect you have no idea of what an actual bad immigration or customs interaction might involve.

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Post by doombolt »

coryfklein wrote: post #299
doombolt wrote: post #131

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You can just say "no". And smile. Will be completely correct on your part.

> Guard: "Have you consumed weed in the last 30 days?" > You: "No" If you have consumed in the last 30 days, then your "No" response is definitely not correct.

Yes it is correct. They have no business asking this. If a question is incorrect, you can answer whatever you like to it.

Lying is only giving wrong answers on correct questions. If a person sticks their nose where it does not belong, too bad.

I have rights to do any kinds of thingd to my body, and I have exactly zero obligation to disclose it, unless in strict contexts of medical help or driving.

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Post by doombolt »

number_six wrote: post #301
doombolt wrote: post #176

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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.

>which has its own obligations before its citizens to uphold their human rights So you want the country the person is traveling from to impose their Will on the country they are traveling to?

Yes and it will definitely happen. Their ambassador sending notes to your state department and then starting to reconsider bilateral agreements.

Happens all the time.

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