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Offline TomSea

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Canada legalises recreational cannabis use
« on: June 20, 2018, 09:42:32 am »
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Canada legalises recreational cannabis use

Canada's parliament has passed a law legalising the recreational use of marijuana nationwide.

The Cannabis Act passed its final hurdle on Tuesday in a 52-29 vote in the Senate. The bill controls and regulates how the drug can be grown, distributed, and sold.

Canadians will be able to buy and consume cannabis legally as early as this September.

Read more at: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44543286
The country is the second worldwide to legalise the drug's recreational use.
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Re: Canada legalises recreational cannabis use
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2018, 01:41:56 pm »
We'll see if they experience what Colorado did:
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As Colorado auto deaths involving marijuana rise, CDOT is asking thousands how they feel about driving under pot’s influence
CDOT is using online surveys and open houses across the state to gauge Coloradans attitudes
By John Aguilar | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: March 25, 2018 at 7:00 am | UPDATED: March 26, 2018 at 3:20 pm

Amid a rise in Colorado auto fatalities involving marijuana, state transportation officials are surveying thousands of residents this year to better understand public attitudes toward driving under the influence of pot, with the hopes of blunting the increasingly deadly trend.  ...

The number of marijuana-related automobile fatalities in Colorado, as measured by the drug’s chief psychoactive ingredient, hit 77 in 2016, the latest in a series of sharp increases in recent years. Fifty-one of those drivers had levels of that substance, called Delta 9 THC, above the threshold for cannabis impairment under Colorado law.  ...
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Re: Canada legalises recreational cannabis use
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2018, 01:56:07 pm »
Maybe the Hollywood set really will flee....
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Re: Canada legalises recreational cannabis use
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2018, 01:59:49 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on June 20, 2018, 01:56:07 pm
Maybe the Hollywood set really will flee....
If this doesn't convince them, I don't know what will. At least maybe Snoop Dogg will go.
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Re: Canada legalises recreational cannabis use
« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2018, 02:15:44 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on June 20, 2018, 01:56:07 pm
Maybe the Hollywood set really will flee....

One can only hope.
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« Reply #5 on: June 20, 2018, 03:16:10 pm »
Quote from: dfwgator on June 20, 2018, 02:15:44 pm
One can only hope.
It will just ruin the movies coming out of Canada.... :shrug:
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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