The current situation is terrible, and "legalization" is going to increase punishments across the board, so it's really not legalizing anything except the right to buy expensive low quality THC-limited irradiated weed from the government and their corporate friends, who are getting rich by criminalizing their competition. It's an Orwellian nightmare. Prohibition 2.0.
What they should have done was repeal all cannabis prohibition. Or, use an 'order in council' to remove cannabis from the criminal code, which takes about 2 hours of paperwork.
That's what they hinted at when they campaigned to Canadians who were weary of prohibition, and we stupidly ate it up. The classic bait and switch. Now it's going to be worse than ever.
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damn! but don't people get to grow 4 plants and have some weed at home?
Yes, it's going to be legal to have a secret stash, but then again.... secret stashes don't really need to be legal! I guess if it makes you feel better to know your baggie in the drawer is "legal", so be it. Doesn't make me feel any different. As for growing 4 plants, only BC (and maybe one other province) looks like they're going to allow it. And only for owners of houses... not for renters! And certainly not for the poor or homeless. So it's legalizing a few things, slightly.... and illegalizing everything else, a lot.
that really is some bullshit. now i feel kinda sad cuz I was getting excited for you guys up there. thanks for filling me in man
No probs, lots of work for activists to be done, and the black market (free market) will continue. Lots of peaceful people will end up fucked for life unless we get things sorted out. It's like they WANT people to freak out or something. Nobody asked for this kind of regime. :/