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Canadian government to announce marijuana legalization by July 1st, 2018
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-legal-marijuana-pot-1.4041902
The liberal government will put forth legislation that legalizes the sale and possession of marijuana in the week of April 10th, 2017. The provinces will then have until July 1st, 2018 to plan their rules & infrastructure for the public sale of the plant. The federal government will restrict sale to anyone below the age of 18, although the provinces will be free to overrule that age as long as it is higher. The drinking age in most provinces in Canada is 19 or older, but in Quebec it is 18 or older. I think this is a great progressive step forward. Thoughts? |
Does this make weed more accessible or less accessible to children?
Also, despite me mentioning the word "dank" super often, I don't really like the smell and can't really see any benefits for me personally. |
Well, in my opinion, this is progressive. Marijuana is less dangerous than drinking to start with. That's all I'm going to say.
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Anecdotally, I can say it was a lot easier for a 16 year-old me to score a bag of weed compared to a mickey of vodka. |
I find it interesting to see how this will affect possible legalization here in the states. This is a very progressive step forward, and perhaps other places will follow Canada's footsteps in the future.
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The fact that weed is illegal in a majority of countries around the world despite the fact that it cures cancer is an atrocity.
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Let's not bring fallacies into this. |
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Regardless, I am happy Canada has passed this legislation. It might be a nice test for the US. Hopefully it works out! |
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The flip side is, with how unregulated the market is ATM, any kid with the right amount of money can buy it if he finds a dealer. And they're not hard to find. Ask around to a few people who you think are into the drug and you'll always find someone who's selling it. It was much easier in my high school years to get a bag of weed by the end of the day than alcohol. |
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Genuine question: why?
People say this is "progressive" and everything but all I see is legalisation of an intoxicating substance which, outside of medical uses (for which I agree, it should be legal where other drugs are less effective), has no purpose other than for self-indulgence. I realise, before anyone says this, that alcohol is worse - but that's not an argument; just because one thing is bad doesn't make something else which is less bad good. Anyone who's even talked to me knows that I'm a loooooooong way off saying "ew alcohol and drugs are bad" (most of my friends irl are like "wtf you love drugs" when they hear this stance, haha) but legalising the latter just doesn't seem to have benefits to me. And ftr, seconding the above: weed does not cure cancer. |
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Not to mention legalising weed and attaching a tax to it like alcohol and tobacco could be an excellent source of revenue for the government which can then be used to improve on government programs.
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Doesn't legalizing it reduce crime anyway?
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Nothing cures cancer. Cancer is a collection of literally thousands of conditions caused by mutating cells. Scientists in the field these days tend to be pretty certain that a blanket cure for all cancer isn't even possible, even if for some forms there is at least a possibility. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-we-truly-cure-cancer/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/03/15/lets-stop-trying-to-cure-cancer-says-cancer-professor/ http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/cancers-in-general/cancer-questions/can-cancer-be-cured Just a few examples. I don't know where you're getting this conspiracy theory but it's just plain wrong - not to mention disproved by the continued trend of governments legalising marijuana. |
You just watch the cancer rates drop in Canada over the next decade.
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From what evidence is this coming from and what qualifications do you have that allow you to interpret the evidence with such certainty? |
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What world are you living in? If governments really cared about our well being we'd be living in a world where a majority of our energy was green. Medical companies wouldn't make a dime if it got out that weed does more than anything they could come out with. |
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Nor do I think you understand that there are various well-backed up theories for economic progress, environmentalism, etc. The notion that governments dont care about our well being because of your unsubstantiated argument is arrogant. Quote:
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