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