IN THE NEWS: A Bill has been placed into the Canadian parliament today where Canada is to legalize Marijuana by July 2018.
What does this mean? – Canadians will be able to carry UP TO 30 grams LEGALLY on your person, You will be allowed to grow up to 4 plants in your home.
The legal age limit for this will be 18 years old, as the government is saying it “Stunts Brain Development” – Legalization of recreational pot is a HUGE step for Canada.
If caught “Distributing” the plant you can face up to 14 years in Jail & a Min fine of $1.000, Random ‘Sobriety Tests” can be given to you while driving.
Now this brings us to the fact of once it’s legal are we going to fight for “decriminalization” of the plant?
Check out the full information below via Global News
OTTAWA – Adults 18 and older will be able to legally buy and cultivate small amounts of marijuana for personal use, while selling the drug to a minor will become a serious new criminal offence under the federal Liberal government’s proposed new legal-pot regime.
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A suite of legislation introduced Thursday would, once passed, establish a “strict legal framework” for the production, sale, distribution and possession of pot, and make it against the law to sell cannabis to youth or use a young person to commit a cannabis-related crime.
New penalties would range from a simple police citation to 14 years behind bars.
“If your objective is to protect public health and safety and keep cannabis out of the hands of minors, and stop the flow of profits to organized crime, then the law as it stands today has been an abject failure,” Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale told a news conference.
“Police forces spend between $2 billion and $3 billion every year trying to deal with cannabis, and yet Canadian teenagers are among the heaviest users in the western world … we simply have to do better.”
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The new law would allow adults 18 and over to possess up to 30 grams of dried cannabis or its equivalent in public, share up to 30 grams of dried marijuana with other adults and buy cannabis or cannabis oil from a provincially regulated retailer.
They would also be permitted to grow up to four plants per residence for personal use, as well as make legal cannabis-containing products at home.
The government says it intends to bring other products, including pot-infused edibles, into the legalized sphere once federal regulations for production and sale are developed and brought into force.
