[Trump can’t help but see dollar signs when he sees the untapped potential depicted on the map below…]
Canada is running out of marijuana two days after drug became legal
Canadians were so excited about getting their hands on some legal, recreational marijuana the country is reportedly experience a shortage. Police were called to help shops struggling to handle long queues and with frustrated people unable to buy cannabis.
Bill Blair, a former Toronto police chief who has led the government’s legalisation programme, told public broadcaster CBC the country was unable to supply enough to meet demand.
“We expected, you know, certain strains might run out and there would be a bit of a run on supply,” he said.
“But, you know, they’ve got a pretty good infrastructure in place and I’m confident it will work.”
On Wednesday Canada became the first industrialised nation and only the second country in the world, after Uruguay, to legalise recreational cannabis as part of a controversial experiment in drug policy. . .
via Canada Exhausts Entire Inventory of Legal Pot In 2 Days…New Production Goal of 1 Million Pounds
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Well, damn near everyone in the U.S. is already smoking it. I’m the lone holdout, it would seem And as much as I hate the smell, looks like I am going to have to get used to it. It is just a matter of time, I think, before it is legalized here. However, with that being said, I read an article the other day that stated that states with legalized marijuana have a higher than average amount of vehicle accidents that are due to people driving while under the influence of marijuana.
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Shelby, I have mixed feelings about the cannabis issue. As a senior citizen watching my friends die of cancer, my primary concern has been making medical marijuana available owing to its anti-cancer effects. As a Green Party member, I’ve always supported harm reduction, a dual strategy that proposes to divert law enforcement funds into treatment. As far as I can see, drug prohibition doesn’t work, and like alcohol prohibition merely serves to strengthen organized the organized crime elements that run that black market.
Unfortunately under Trump, we get only one arm of the harm reduction – we end the prohibition but I sure don’t see law enforcement funds going into treatment for people who are psychologically dependent on marijuana.
I also think smoking it is a terrible idea. It’s very irritating to the lungs and there are much better delivery systems available.
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I don’t see this “pot use” as good. As a matter of fact, how will many people fail drug tests to get work?
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To be honest, Lara, I support any policy that reduces the incarceration of African Americans and Native Americans for the victimless crime of drug possession and undermines the criminal gangs that have transformed Columbia, Honduras and Mexico into virtual failed states.
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Dr. Bramhall, what I think you fail to realize is that marijuana is only one of many excuses for why Black people are arrested and locked up. The system of ‘white supremacy’ will make damn sure that there will forever be multiple reasons or excuses, however lame they may be, to lock up descendants of slaves. So, even if marijuana is legalized here, I seriously doubt that they will call for a retroactive mandate to release ALL who have been incarcerated on marijuana charges before the nationwide legalization of marijuana. That is never going to happen and there will still be multiple laws on the books to lock people up for being under the influence of everything else. The main reason there are millions of Black people incarcerated is due to the fact that we are racially profiled and pulled over for any and everything from a broken taillight, to a non-working brake light or because the picture of our license the cop pulls up enables him/her to state that we resemble a suspect they are after. That is what that cop said who ended up killing Philando Castile; that he had a ‘wide nose’ and the suspect they were after for a robbery had a ‘wide nose’. That is just absolutely ludicrous to pull someone over for that reason and then shoot them dead.
And I have been in too many accidents, the last thing I need is another one because someone is stoned out of their mind and not paying attention to their driving. The legalization of marijuana only opens up another can of worms when once opened, is hard to close. I will never be FOR the legalization of weed, for any reason.
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