Government stores OMG.
That's not new, in North Carolina every hard liquor store (ie not wine or beer) is owned and run by county level agencies.
Cannabis is legal in Canada: What you need to know
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#152The 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 is extremely likely that inhaling combustion products of any kind is harmful to our health.
Use a vaporizer or one of the myriad ways to decarboxylate and extract THC in its pure form and you can avoid this.
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#153Slight digression, yesterday someone told me the existence of the Kratom plant. Which seems another potent and not harmful leaf that can improve your quality of life. (the few research on it is muddy so grain of salt required, but the amount of people shouting publicly for it in the US gets one thinking).
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.
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pilots are in short supply worldwide, any country creating further restrictions is going to obviously face even more supply problems. Get the feeling it will pass unnoticed, like many regulations that don't make sense it's far easier to let it slide rather than change the rules.
I’m surprised to hear that pilots are in short supply. I started learning to fly as a hobby and I saw many videos about how hard it is to get a job at a commercial airline. I got the impression that there is more supply than there is demand.
Depends where you are. In Asia this is very true, in North America it's not true at all. Source: I'm a pilot.
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
At least until April, a government website is the only legal way to buy pot in Ontario. Since they're selling it, they set the prices. In a lot of provinces the only legal way to get pot is through a government pot store. Alcohol works the same way; Ontario recently allowed the sales of wine & beer in some grocery stores, but everything else is at the LCBO, (government liquor stores), and the Beer Store, (which I thi…
The Beer Store is owned by two foreign-owned multinationals (the Belgian AB InBev and the American MolsonCoors). Not government run, but like many Ontario monopolies is has government in its pocket.
How would the government exit this deal ?
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
‘Obviously, the general public doesn't want to fly with pilots that are high in more than one way.’ I laughed way too hard at this for some reason.
I'd much rather have a high pilot than a hung-over/drunk pilot though which seems to be quite common.
And then there's the stereotype that they're on stimulants a la Denzel Washington in "Flight"
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
Canada sells a _significant_ amount to the US for medical purposes and legal sales.
Source? I’m genuinely interested in the numbers.
The Canadian government started publishing the production and export numbers for licences medical producers at the end of 2017 [0]. Looks like the total amount exported is a few hundred kilograms of dried canabis and a few dozen liters of cannabis oil per month.
[0] https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-medica...
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#158Sadly complete state control of online sales prevents us from running an erlang written dope auction site or similar business.
There is so much HN in this pithy comment, it's gorgeous.
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#159If 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
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
Canada will deny a US citizen entry if they’ve ever had a DUI in their life, even if it was 30 years ago. Many people find this out the hard way.
Canada is actually super good about this. If you're coming from Australia, the official immigration docs ask do you have a DUI? If yes, was it below .07 Blood Alcohol Content? (In Australia the crime is .05 or above, but in Canada the crime is only > .07) So even if you broke the law in Australia and got a DUI at .06, Canada will ignore it, because technically driving at .06 in Canada is not a crime, so they don't de…
Generally in Canada it's .08 legal limit. In BC it was dropped to .05