Recreational marijuana will be legal across Canada by July 1, 2018

Editors Comments : There goes North America.

Based on extremely reliable information I can tell you that Canada legalizing  marijuana will be a down turn for Canada.

All my marijuana smoking friends are going to argue with me, many will befriend me but none of them can argue with the fact that many of the Canadians that will be allowed to smoke marijuana will do it excessively. 

This will lead to a society of people who will solve their problems simply by getting high instead of working to resolve them.

The simple fact that you smoke marijuana to relax means that you are not relaxing by natural means such as exercise, meditation ect. 

It also means that you are trying to  get rid of stress by simply taking a sedative.

I can guarantee you marijuana will make you stupid, slow, lazy possibly fat because most (not all) who smoke  have a yearning for eating a lot more than normal.

It may lead to another baby-boom because along with the yearning for food comes yearning for sex. 

Maybe Justin Trudeau, Canada's Prime Minister Canada wants to solve the aging problem in Canada where 25% of the population will be on old age pensions very shortly.

Pot smokers will argue that marijuana  is better than alcohol. 

That's like saying having skin cancer is better than prostate cancer.

Everything in moderation is okay, but unfortunately a lot of the new generation of pot smokers will go overboard

The only ones who will  benefit are the Canadian government from taxing what they weren't able to tax before,marijuana. 

Warning. You better remember where you stashed all those joints. When you come to the Indonesia Singapore and many other countries with harsh drug laws you may find yourself six months jail if they find a joint in your luggage on personal clothing.

Canada's tourism will benefit from the new drug laws because many from countries who cannot smoke marijuana will want to vacation in Canada. Much like they vacationed in Holland.

In a the long-term this all falls in line with my long-term theory that economic power throughout history has always shifted from East to West. 

It started with the Chinese thousand of years ago who were the economic leaders of the world until they started using opium then it moved India, to Turkey, Germany, France, England, America back to Japan and and now China again.

Why, simply because each country becomes strong when they have a strong work ethics where everybody's working instead of getting high. 

Then they bring up a generation that doesn't have to work as hard  such as the 60s generation in America and Canada and everybody smoked dope. 

That generation turns into a harder drug generation with the advent of cocaine in the 70's and 80's and Ecstasy plus chemicals this century.

So this is one more step in the degeneration and economic downturns of North America who were the economic power of the world and are losing their grip to Asia where most countries have strong drug laws and work ethics.

All right lets here is from all my Pot smoking Facebook friends. 

There's nothing you can say or 

do to convince me that I am wrong .

Recreational marijuana will be legal across Canada by July 1, 2018, Justin 

Trudeau says
Free to be him. (Reuters/Chris Wattie)

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WRITTEN BYLila MacLellan

OBSESSIONThe Green Economy 6 hours ago

Canada’s government is finally introducing long-promised legislation to make recreational marijuana legal across the country. The new law, likely to add to the country’s “liberal haven” reputation, could be in place in time for Canadians to celebrate Canada’s 151st birthday, on July 1, 2018, if not sooner.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government will lay out plans to legalize the drug next month, as early as April 10, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. (One rumor says it may be April 20, or 4/20—a date with significance to weed enthusiasts.) The law would reportedly give power to the provinces to establish prices, while making the federal government responsible for the drug’s safety. Canadians would also be allowed to grow pot at home, but be limited to four plants per household.

The legislation ought to sail through Parliament with little opposition, since it has broad support from the left and right. Before news of the Liberal legislation broke, Trudeau and his party were facing criticism from the left-leaning New Democrats Party (NDP) for running a “cynical campaign” in 2015, when Trudeau promised to make recreational pot legal if elected. The NDP, which is pro-legalization, charged that the pledge was designed to attract young voters and that the Liberals had no intention of following through with the proposal.


And in a surprising softening of its tone on marijuana laws, the leader of the Conservative Party last year also leaned on the Liberals to enact the law, saying it was necessary to begin regulating pot to keep kids from buying it illegally from prescription dispensaries. The federal government would set the legal minimum age to purchase pot at 18, though provinces could set a higher limit.

Already, storefront dispensaries in Toronto, Vancouver, and other cities have been selling pot to those who have a prescription. Some even offer live video-conference appointments with a remote doctor who could write that prescription. Periodically, the dispensaries would be raided by police, but they quickly re-opened.

Legal pot is not expected to bring eye-popping tax revenues for the federal government— at least not in the first year or so. A report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer released last fall suggested that the change would lead to about $618 million in taxes when first enacted, but said that number would likely grow as the industry and market mature. Trudeau has said that the money raised should go toward drug education, addiction programs, and mental health support.

In a recent poll, 51% of Canadians said they supported legalizing marijuana, and 33% said they opposed it. Some 14% of respondents were totally chill, holding no strong opinion either way.