The countdown is on till with just a week left till complete legalization.
On Oct. 17, Canada becomes the second and largest country with a legal national marijuana marketplace. Uruguay launched legal sales last year, after several years of planning.
It’s a profound social shift promised by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and fueled by a desire to bring the black market into a regulated, taxed system after nearly a century of prohibition.
It also stands in contrast to the United States, where the federal government outlaws marijuana while most states allow medical or recreational use for people 21 and older. Canada’s national approach has allowed for unfettered industry banking, inter-province shipments of cannabis, online ordering, postal delivery and billions of dollars in investment; national prohibition in the U.S. has stifled greater industry expansion there.
And you know, if you’re anything like me, it’s going to be fun for a while to be able to go to the stores and buy it. I imagine that’s because it was stupidly illegal for so long.
I love that I can pick out any strain I want. I was never able to “shop” before. You’d get what the street guy had. (Maryland - Medical only legal at this time).
Exactly, and you never knew if what the street guy had was what he said it was, lol. Or what pesticides may have been used. So much better now. Are you able to also grow your own? I think, not sure, that in either Washington or Oregon you can’t grow your own legally.
It is odd, but it happens. My husband got a whole bunch of seeds in some blue dream, and he’s been growing that off and on for a while. I never find any seeds in the stuff I like, damn it.