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posted by mrpg on Thursday June 21 2018, @10:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the let's-bet-on-the-third dept.

Canada becomes second nation in the world to legalize marijuana

Recreational marijuana use will soon be legal in Canada after the Senate passed a "historic" bill on Tuesday with a vote of 52-29. Canada is only the second country in the world -- and the first G7 nation -- to implement legislation to permit a nationwide marijuana market. In the neighboring US, nine states and the District of Columbia now allow for recreational marijuana use, and 30 allow for medical use.

Bill C-45, otherwise known as the Cannabis Act, stems from a campaign pledge of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to keep marijuana away from underage users and reduce related crime. The act to legalize the recreational use of weed was first introduced on April 13, 2017, and was later passed at the House of Commons in November. The Senate passage of the bill was the final hurdle in the process.

Uruguay was the first country to legalize marijuana's production, sale and consumption in December 2013.

Also at CBC, BBC, NPR, Reuters, and The Guardian.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by cubancigar11 on Thursday June 21 2018, @11:29AM (5 children)

    by cubancigar11 (330) on Thursday June 21 2018, @11:29AM (#696139) Homepage Journal

    I was always amazed by the focus on munchies. I know it is real, having been a habitual smoker myself, but most of the really addicted people I know are bordering-to-malnutrished thin. May be because they smoke all of the money they have and don't earn a lot either. I personally gained weight, but in this regard I am the only outlier I know of in my friend circle.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @11:58AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @11:58AM (#696148)

    Few heavy pot smokers eat properly. There's no nutritional benefit to skipping meals and snacking on unhealthy shit.

  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Thursday June 21 2018, @02:02PM (1 child)

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Thursday June 21 2018, @02:02PM (#696183) Journal

    I know it is real, having been a habitual smoker myself, but most of the really addicted people I know are bordering-to-malnutrished thin.

    Define addicted and habitual. I smoke daily and can go for days without smoking. Then again, i'm not heavy daily. usually two to three small bowls a night which is two puffs each (I only really smoke at night to sleep). I know few daily smokers who are thin but they are physically active (sports). I have personally lost a lot of weight since smoking but that is attributed to my heavy handed attack on sugar and other carb intakes which I started just over a year ago, six months after beginning my nightly sleep smoking. Though I do suppose marijuana could have helped. There is evidence it can increase metabolism. Win in my book.

    May be because they smoke all of the money they have and don't earn a lot either.

    No.

    I personally gained weight, but in this regard I am the only outlier I know of in my friend circle.

    check your diet.

    • (Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Friday June 22 2018, @04:04AM

      by cubancigar11 (330) on Friday June 22 2018, @04:04AM (#696582) Homepage Journal

      Define addicted and habitual.

      Okay I will tell you what I mean. The extreme case I knew, was a friend of a friend who was working in a software company back in the golden ages and had absolutely no work assigned to him, so he just picked up smoking as something to do when not doing anything else. He would get up and smoke a couple of joints and come to office, having several joints in his pack of cigarettes. Then he will smoke just before the lunch, in the evening, and then after coming back to home he will smoke until the 12:00pm or so.

      Soon after he picked up reading all about yogis and babas and suddenly we heard he has resigned from the office and left. Later we learned he went to India chasing some baba who offered him a good place to live in exchange for his knowlege of English, but that wasn't according to his taste so he went to some poor village and asked around for manual work, but the villagers told him that he is an addict and lost his way and he should instead try to go back to work, so then he joined an NGO but then realized the NGO was a front to inject bribe-cash back into bank, which is when I met him.

      He was thin as a stick, had lost all his hair and his possessions involved 3-4 joints, a couple 100 bucks, and some books about some guru who has been alive since 1000 years or so, who he was going to meet.

      Then there are friends who smoke hash all weekend, and every evening on weekdays. All of them are lanky as f. All of them, and they have absolutely perfect blood pressure etc. too. Some of them are younger but not studious, others older and quite successful.

      I personally gained weight

      Of course, but what I meant was that I simply started eating more because I normally eat more when the food is good, and after smoking all the food started tasting good :)

  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday June 21 2018, @05:34PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday June 21 2018, @05:34PM (#696307) Journal

    I was always amazed by the focus on munchies.

    If we're going to keep weed illegal because of obesity then Ronald McDonald deserves execution by firing squad!