Marijuana is now legal in Canada.
 

Read on, and be happy.



Source: Associated Press

Windsor, Ontario -- Canada's failure to change its marijuana laws as ordered by an earlier court ruling caused a judge to drop a possession charge against a 16-year-old boy Thursday.
The case amounts to a challenge to the validity of the Canadian law that makes possession of marijuana illegal.

Lawyer Brian McAllister argued in court that the federal government never reworked its marijuana laws despite the 2000 Ontario court ruling that it should make medicinal marijuana available to legitimate patients.

Instead of writing new laws, the government passed regulations to create a medical marijuana system.

McAllister argued that the situation means Canada effectively has no law prohibiting possession of about an ounce or less of marijuana.

Justice Douglas Phillips agreed, dropping the charges against the youth, who cannot be named because of his age.

While the ruling involves only one case, it signals further momentum toward the possible decriminalization of possession of small amounts of marijuana in Canada.

Two Parliament committees have recommended eliminating or easing laws against marijuana possession. Justice Minister Martin Cauchon says he will introduce legislation in upcoming months to make possession of small amounts of pot similar to a traffic violation, punishable by a fine with no criminal record.

U.S. officials oppose any moves by Canada toward greater leniency, warning of tighter border controls to combat increased smuggling.

Eight U.S. states have taken some kind of step toward permitting the medicinal use of marijuana. The U.S. Supreme Court, however, has ruled there is no exception in federal law for people to use marijuana, so even those with tolerant state laws could face arrest if they do.

i know where i'm moving :thumbsup

Nice.

Now the borders tighten, the price of any herbs coming in from Canada goes up if not eliminated, and america wages taxation and smuggling war against its own people and smuggling canadians with higher fines and penalties for transportation.

not a good day necessarily.

I dunno, man...anything to get more negative press for the drug war is a good thing. Declaring (drug)war on Canada will strike most, if not all Americans as hella stupid, and get even more press going. The best thing that could happen would be nice, harsh, DUI laws. Then all them baby boomers that smoke on the weekends would get to take a nice piss test, lose their driving privliges becaused theygot high two weeks ago, and finally get off of their hypocritical asses and vote like they really think, not like the Republican National Convention bastards tell 'em to.

mamamia.

Cops are gonna start carrying urine sample cups with them? Don't you think everyone would get a little on the outside of the bottle? ;)

Im all for the legalization man, dont get me wrong.

Just going on the article I read er somethin online about it.

Saying that the US didnt want Canada to soften penalties or whatever, claiming it would stiffen transportation fines and penalties.

Thas what I read anyhow...

time to move up north :smokin

i know my roommate will be happy to hear this.

If you need some quality reading material, try www.mapinc.org . It's a non-profit drug related newsclipping service from one of the George Soros legalization programs. Always good stuff there.

hell yea :thumbsup

I keep hearing about how Canada is going to leagalize, but I don't buy it.

After stomping on Iraq, Canada will be next. The current administration is not going to let a country exercise their own free will if it goes against the presidents agenda.

They aren't really going to attack but they will strong arm them into going along with what we want.

Nice, looks like there's another normal country in the world. Canada should be sth like Holland in Europe.

O' Canada
My Home and Native Land
True patriot Love
In all thy suns command!!
With Glowing herb
We see thee smoke Rise
The true North Strong and Free
With Big Bong Hits
From Far and Wide
We stand on Guard for Thee
God keep our Land
Glorious and Full of Weed
O' Canada
We Stand For Legal Weed
O' Canada
We Stand For Legal Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed!!!!!!!!

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Can I visit you for a few years?:Graucho

I'm pro-legalization too, but I haven't smoked in years... I just think that jailing pot smokers is like putting harmless panda bears in jail... what's the point? As if a completely stoned MJ smoker is going to have the motivation to commit any crimes... I think not.

Unfortunately, the US has a lot of financial ammunition to "influence" Canadian drug laws. Tariffs ( or import quotas/restrictions) can mean billions of US$, and are a major policy issue for any other government.

Pisses me off. :ak47:

nice news :Graucho :rasta

Depends which side you live on .... your always welcome here fletch:1orglaugh

I am pro active I moved last month, where the fuck were you?

:thumbsup

Hell Yeah! I'll second that!! :smokin

Dateline January 3, 2003:
Washington D.C.
The Bush administration today announced that Canada has been added to the Axis Of Evil list. All American citizens and embassy personnel are urged to return to the U.S. pending the invasion.

Great, more of a reason for the world to hate the Americans even more.

Isnt the strong-armed tactics what got American into this spot to begin with? You Americans need to get a grip and get rid of BUSH and get someone into the whitehouse who isnt a puppet for Daddy.

Wow a new reality Piss Site .........I can just see it now :1orglaugh

I'd be willing to bet that there would be more random piss tests for canadian workers

I idea of dumping folks into jail for smoking some weed is absurb. Even more absurb is action to stop folks from accessing pot for medical use - that is more "criminal" than the act of smoking it.

The US has prided itself on having "freedoms", but sadly has more laws and restrictions on its own citizens than any country in the western world. The prison population exceeds that of any western country, - many inmates are paying the price for having a puff of Mary Jane.

Pot has been legalised (or never was illegal) in other countries as well as Canada and this trend will continue - there are far more important "crimes" that need attention than smoking pot. The sooner the US Admin admit this, the more the US taxpayer *may* see some taxes being put to better use. But the "control culture" in the US ain't going to be relaxed too easily under the current Admin - so little hope of that...

Yeah Im sure the US will give Canada lots of shit about this...but think about it isn't this better than Canada pretending that they agree with the War on Drugs just to kiss ass to the American government? More and more people will start to see how much bullshit the war on drugs really is and hopefully will actually START VOTING their opinions.

Hey remember those Super Bowl ads that said that if you smoke pot you help terrorists? Did any one actually fall for that bullshit? Fact is most marijuana is not imported into the US from Afganistan, Saudi Arabia or anywhere in the middle east! It either comes from Mexico, Northern Cali, or Canada. Why dont they make a commercial: I smoked a joint... I helped fund those damn Canadians!

Canada is not legalizing pot. They are planning to decriminalize it. Big difference. Smoking pot will still be illegal in Canada but you will only get a fine if you are caught with 30 grams or less. It will be the same as getting caught drinking booze in the park. No criminal charges, just a fine. Selling pot, or possesing more than 30 grams, will still be illegal and give you a criminal record.

Oh Canada.. .

Yeah, what he said! Big difference between legalizing it, and decriminalizing it. Although, 30 grams is a fair sized baggie, ain't it? :1orglaugh

See, I think this is the real reason my woman don't want me moving up there.

She knows I'd be smoked out and wacking off all day :)



although the only real change here would be the 'smoked out' part

Man I got out of a pot conviction years ago by arguing church and state. I know that's an American thing, but it applies in Canada too apparently. I was in custody for about 30 minutes after one of my neighbors got pissed off about the smell coming from my pad, and the cops came in and found my plants. I didn't call my lawyer, mainly because I don't have a criminal lawyer and I wasn't about to get one for this bs. I started quoting the Bible (well close enough anyway), "and The Lord said, I have given you all the seed bearing plants and herbs to use", etc. They couldn't argue, and let me go, basically telling me to put a towel under the door at my place. They did get pissed when I asked for my plants back, though.

Cali doesn't need Canada's weed. Got plenty of our own. :winkwink:

If we go through with it, your drug czar suggested sanctions on Canadian products, you know like you have with Cuba. Seriously.



Sadly, it will be a long time before people in the US vote for decriminalizing weed. It didn't even go over in Nevada, that was a real setback.



Man, we laugh at the propoganda in Reffer Madness, but it's even worse now. Have you seen that commercial where the teen girl smokes a pipe at a party and the gets raped because she's high? What the fuck is that? Propoganda like that does way more harm than good, THAT should be fucking illegal. Ignorant parents see shit like that and freak out, like I would if I had a young daugther and no real understanding of pot, and that's where the anti pot senament comes from. I've smoked a million pipes with a million women, but I've never raped one of them. Guess it's only a matter of time now, the US government dones't lie. :1orglaugh

Very good maybe I will smoke up tonight and forget the fucked up shoots of the kast two days.