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Canadian federal legislation for Marijuana legalization Spring 2017

Thomas Davie

Thomas Davie

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Our Health Minister (Philpott) is in New York for a conference reviewing international drug policy. She announced that

"Federal legislation to legalize marijuana will be ready in a year, Canada's health minister told the UN in New York today.

"We will introduce legislation in spring 2017 that ensures we keep marijuana out of the hands of children and profits out of the hands of criminals," Jane Philpott said in her prepared speech to delegates."

Take that for what you will.

Egzoset - it is happening; not quickly enough, but it is happening. No announcement of moratoriums on arrests for simple possession or cultivation, and no mention of amnesty, but there ya have it. The Canadian government is stating it's effective willingness to withdraw from International treaties to keep an election promise on legalizing weed.

Tom
 
Yeah, I didn't know what to make of this. I hope it turns out to be more than a grand gesture while keeping cannabis effectively if not technically illegal.
 
iksaxophone said:
Yeah, I didn't know what to make of this. I hope it turns out to be more than a grand gesture while keeping cannabis effectively if not technically illegal.
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Oh, it's real. The feds have until the middle of August (25th I think) to come up with completely new laws surrounding ease of patient access regarding medical MJ according to our Supreme Court or else MJ is completely removed from the criminal code. That bit is due to the Harper government losing the Allard case at the SC. Quite likely personal cultivation will be preserved for medical patients.

Then, the government is going to want to make sure that the medical laws are reconciled with the forthcoming adult, recreational laws or face expected SC challenges.

Next April, expect the legislation to include

-a recreational age minimum
-a possession limit maximum
-rights of transportation and transfer (without renumeration) specified
-personal cultivation permitted or denied (expect an SC challenge if not allowed)
-taxation limits
-where consumption can be allowed other than private residences (expect an SC challenge if coffee shops not allowed)
-rules about advertising, sponsorship, yada yada
-new penalties for providing access to minors

and hundreds of other tidbits. Of course debate will be allowed in the House, but with a Liberal majority the legislation's passage is a forgone conclusion. Expect an interesting foreshadowing this August.

Tom
 
assclass said:
Im guessing we will have to suffer with illegal drug dealers until at least 2018.
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If provincial governments act like pigs at the feeding trough, or of the federal government does not specify taxation limits, I expect we'll have illegal dealers ad infinitum and have to suffer with the legal dealers the same amount of time :) Same with what will happen if personal cultivation not allowed.

Thank God for our liberal (attitude wise not party) supreme court.

Tom
 
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I hope you're right, Tom. Next April is a much more optimistic deadline than the media has been predicting.
I guess what I'm worried about (based on recent press from the government) is that the Liberals will, contrary to their election mandate, drag their feet.
With a majority, if they want to push it through, they will.
But with a majority, if they don't want it, nobody can make them. Until the next election, that is.
 
iksaxophone said:
I hope you're right, Tom. Next April is a much more optimistic deadline than the media has been predicting.
I guess what I'm worried about (based on recent press from the government) is that the Liberals will, contrary to their election mandate, drag their feet.
With a majority, if they want to push it through, they will.
But with a majority, if they don't want it, nobody can make them. Until the next election, that is.
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I understand pessimism on this issue. It's something I've had since 1975. Slowly though, the victories have come. The mass demonstrations on 420 (especially the farmer's markets set up in Vancouver :)), editorials in newspapers, party policy to legalize and then a formal comittment in the throne speech. It's only been getting better and better. Judges throwing out court cases, convictions getting overturned and finally a specific time by a cabinet minister (Philpot) as to when legislation will be tabled.

I might very well be disappointed by the content of the legislation, but I'd still be optimistic at what your supreme court can accomplish.

Tom
 
These raids..SHEESH...

TORONTO - Giant bags of weed locked in police cruisers, young people in handcuffs inside dispensaries, signs that say “Closed” or “Closing.”

This was the very public face Thursday of Project Claudia — an effort by Toronto Police to crack down on stores selling medical marijuana over the counter.

Police wouldn’t say how many marijuana dispensaries were raided across the city over the lunch hour, how many people were arrested or the charges.

Officers were seen at dispensaries on Queen St. W., in Kensington Market, and along the Danforth.

More details are expected to be rolled out at a press conference Friday morning at police headquarters. A protest against Project Claudia is expected to be held outside HQ at the same time.

Word of the long arm of law enforcement sweeping in spread like wildfire among marijuana enthusiasts and advocates online.

http://www.torontosun.com/2016/05/26/toronto-police-launch-project-claudia-pot-raids
 
The sad thing is that most of the business that these storefront were doing was medical. Not everyone is served equally well by our LP"'s.

So, first off I'm concerned that some people will no longer have medical access.

Secondly, regardless of whether or not purchasing at these stores was done for medical or recreational purposes, the demand won't go away - it's just going to move in a blacker direction (pun intended).

These stores were operating upfront, in the open and paying taxes. You know, PST and GST. Black market sales don't collect taxes and don't age discriminate.

Well done Chief Saunders. Thanks for making life a little bit harder for people who don't need it.

Tom

I'e written my MP to express my displeasure st this.
 
^Agree, but regulation is needed.

There needs to be a way for people to get medication ON DEMAND if they need it, and mail order (the way LP's deliver) is not fast enough.

Here is Justin Trudeau's Phone Number. 514-277-6020
 
"We will introduce legislation in spring 2017 that ensures we keep marijuana out of the hands of children and profits out of the hands of criminals,"

That's a really shitty way for the government to put something which is a way bigger social issue than that. It doesn't even make sense because there will always be boys on the dope. You think a weed store is gonna get rid of that? haha.
 
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