Canada leads way in legalizing marijuana

Hats off to Canada for electing Trudeau! Keep the criminals out of the drugs trade and free the police to focus on public safety. As long as what they're doing doesn't harm others, let individuals decide for themselves the lifestyle they choose to live.

Yahoo! (If you're not familiar with Calgary's trademark phrase, that means more than 'good!')

Oh boy, I can see border crossings returning to USA will be a mess for a while.

It's cha-ching for Canada. A ton of dollars from the taxes.

Civilisation!

The morning after the Liberals swept to power in October, pot stocks doubled in price

Interesting. Maybe they know something we don't.

Good job, Canada! This isn't all Trudeau -- it's been an inevitability in Canada for a while, despite Harper -- but hats off for him expediting it. People of the world take note: increased availability and legality is leading to a DROP in use! So, no paranoia about drug abuse, please. There is no negative to this at all: it'll be regulated, and Canada's income will increase dramatically. Just be careful when you exit the borders, Canucks and visitors!

I wonder how Japan will deal with this. As far as I know, it's illegal for Japanese citizens to use marijuana even in other countries. But if it's legal in the country that the person is going to, will it still be a crime? Will they arrest Japanese citizens who smoke in Canada? I assume that they will turn a blind eye to it in reality, but on paper I wonder what their stance will be.

Will they arrest Japanese citizens who smoke in Canada?

Hey . . . I was thinking about that too. Maybe they'll have customs and immigration inspectors passing out plastic cups to Japanese Nationals returning from Canada. LoL . . . & Whoever burns a hole through the cup, gets arrested right there on the spot.

Uraguay and Holland led the way. So, Canada is the first... within the G7, ah.

Well, the stabber at the tube station smoked MJ and subsequently went strange, according to his family, so there is a still-to-be-explored link between schizophrenia and pot use. Chicken and egg?

The dogs will go wild at Narita and Osaka Kansai when they sniff the returnees, though. :)

He has also said that his late brother Michel was facing marijuana possession charges for a “tiny amount” of pot before his death in an avalanche in 1998, and that this influenced his decision to propose legalizing cannabis.

This must be the slippery slope they keep talking about.

Free the weed and take the taxes.

Every Canadian I have ever met was so high that I thought marijuana was already legal there.

"Two in three Canadians support decriminalizing possession and use of the mind-altering weed", according to a recent Ipsos poll. since when has weed become mind altering, It slows the synaptic response, but at the same time has been proven to encourage brain cell development, which tests are being run right now for treatment in Alzheimer’s , Dementia, and other neurological deceased. http://www.cannabisoils.ca/alzheimers-prevention-starts-with-marijuana-according-to-british-journal/

Well, the new government needs to create more pot heads so that they won't notice how incompetence they are. Never mind the reckless spending and all those green pipe dream projects that will increase the national debt ten folds or more. On top of gravy train the Ontario Provincial Liberal's money wasters that turn once a good province into a have-not province to National level. Yes, you need pots to numb yourselves and get away from reality.

Good move. As long as he doesn`t shoot up the taxes and give too many handouts with his free for all policy things might go ok.

Actually, it was this Dec. 10, 1997 constitutional decision that lead the way to legalizing marijuana in Canada. Cheers Terry Parker Jr. http://www.ontariocourts.ca/decisions/2000/july/parker.htm