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Canada Legalizes Weed!

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Legalizing Recreational Marijuana, Canada Begins a National Experiment

MONTREAL ? Canada on Wednesday became the first major world economy to legalize recreational marijuana, beginning a national experiment that will alter the country?s social, cultural and economic fabric, and present the nation with its biggest public policy challenge in decades.

Across the country, as government pot retailers opened from Newfoundland to British Columbia, jubilant Canadians waited for hours in line to buy the first state-approved joints. For many, it was a seminal moment, akin to the ending of Prohibition in the United States in the 1930s.

It was also an unlikely unifier, coming at a time when Canada has been buffeted by bruising trade talks with the United States and has seen its prime minister, Justin Trudeau, repeatedly ridiculed by President Trump. Canada is the second country in the world, after Uruguay, to legalize marijuana.

?I have never felt so proud to be Canadian,? said Marco Beaulieu, 29, a janitor, as he waited with friends outside a government cannabis retailer in the east end of Montreal. ?Canada is once again a progressive global leader. We have gay rights, feminism, abortion rights, and now we can smoke pot without worrying police are going to arrest us.?

Canadians broadly support marijuana legalization, but amid the euphoria, there was also caution.

?Legalization of cannabis is the largest public policy shift this country has experienced in the past five decades,? said Mike Farnworth, British Columbia?s minister of public safety.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/world/canada/marijuana-pot-cannabis-legalization.html

the article says a lot more.

Wow... this is a pretty big landmark I think! It's clearly only a matter of time that it happens in America too. Thoughts?
 
things reactionaries say that would be awesome if they were true: marijuana is a gateway drug to *DUN DUN DUUUUUN!* COMMUNISM!
An Alberta MLA has drawn parallels between the legalization of marijuana in Canada and the communist revolution in China.

In the Alberta legislature on Wednesday, United Conservative Party (UCP) culture and tourism critic Ron Orr suggested marijuana legalization could lead to human tragedy similar to the one suffered in China during the communist revolution.
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It was also an unlikely unifier, coming at a time when Canada has been buffeted by bruising trade talks with the United States and has seen its prime minister, Justin Trudeau, repeatedly ridiculed by President Trump. Canada is the second country in the world, after Uruguay, to legalize marijuana.
This was my favorite part of the article.
 
Everyone knows that smoking reefers leads to communism. And murder! And rape! Watch out, little Johnny!!

teh raep is actually true. after smoking the reefer, my pants are always covered in crusted semen from constantly jacking off when i'm unable to find my next raep victim*
 
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