How long until Cannabis is legal in the UK?

[Halibut]

It's been available in a vaporiser format for ages, popular with medicinal users I believe.

 

Recreational users also. It's highly effective and since vapable cannabis has low to zero odour it doesn't upset others nearby.

[Ontarian1981]

You also wouldn't be allowed to smoke it inside so it's abit of a moot point.

 

Does Canada have restrictions on where you would be allowed to smoke it in public?

I can't imagine it'd be welcome everywhere.

 

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Here, seems there's no single answer as the laws change across the country.

 

Yeah, it is pretty much up to each Province, I believe Ontario, so far, says only in your home, but that is expected to change to everywhere you can smoke tobacco,quite soon. What I find disturbing is that Quebec are insisting that one must be over 21. Funny how Montreal is the birthplace and headquarters of Hell's Angels and The Outlaws, the biggest drug dealers in Canada and are known to have political clout. That stinks more than cannabis smoke to me.

[Dromedary]

There was a spate, some years ago, of imported herbal cannabis that had been first shaken for the trichomes, ....

 

That is still a fairly frequent occurrence with skunk. Dry it well, put in paper bag and shake away.

[Ontarian1981]

You can sit next to someone drinking alcohol and not smell it but you sit next to someone smoking drugs and it absolutely reeks as they do to.

 

Well, as you know you cannot sit next to someone in a pub and smoke these days, so what makes you think you will be allowed to do so with marijuana? The same rules will apply whatever you smoke or vape.

 

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And you can already bake it into brownies.

 

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I think that Canada has quite strong restrictions on smoking in public.

 

Yes they do and they were in effect 5 years before the UK. I can attest to that as I was a smoker in those days and I used to look forward to coming over yonder and freely smoking with my pint, on two trips to Sheffield, during that period.

[Simon Ennis]

I give it 5 years. I just don't see how people can find this drug more dangerous than alcohol!? It clearly is not. You'll find crime rates have dropped significantly in the legalised US states. ****** up people tend to cause issues. Stoned people tend to avoid issues.

 

Keeping it illegal just pumps money into criminal gangs, instead of taking the tax and investing it into bettering out country and help for those who're dependant on stronger drugs such as alcohol.

[Ontarian1981]

I give it 5 years. I just don't see how people can find this drug more dangerous than alcohol!? It clearly is not. You'll find crime rates have dropped significantly in the legalised US states. ****** up people tend to cause issues. Stoned people tend to avoid issues.

 

Keeping it illegal just pumps money into criminal gangs, instead of taking the tax and investing it into bettering out country and help for those who're dependant on stronger drugs such as alcohol.

 

Your last paragraph sums it up perfectly. Get rid of a black market on anything and you get rid of most the crime. Once you make a popular past time legal everybody wins except the crooks. Prohibition in the States proved that point , big tiime.

[Simon Ennis]

Your last paragraph sums it up perfectly. Get rid of a black market on anything and you get rid of most the crime. Once you make a popular past time legal everybody wins except the crooks. Prohibition in the States proved that point , big tiime.

 

Absolutely. It's dumbfounding that people don't seem to understand this.

[apelike]

Stoned people tend to avoid issues.

 

Was one of the reasons give that Woodstock with its 400,000 + hippies was almost free of any crime or arrests.

[geared]

I give it 5 years. I just don't see how people can find this drug more dangerous than alcohol!? It clearly is not. You'll find crime rates have dropped significantly in the legalised US states. ****** up people tend to cause issues. Stoned people tend to avoid issues.

 

Keeping it illegal just pumps money into criminal gangs, instead of taking the tax and investing it into bettering out country and help for those who're dependant on stronger drugs such as alcohol.

 

One of the reasons given is adverse effects on mental health.

The basis of these claims are scientific studies on illegal drug users, who are trusted to (accurately) self-report the quantity and frequency of their use.

 

Well now there's an entire country to use as a comparison, now it can truly be seen what the effects of legal consumption will be on the general populous.

[Phanerothyme]

One of the reasons given is adverse effects on mental health.

The basis of these claims are scientific studies on illegal drug users, who are trusted to (accurately) self-report the quantity and frequency of their use.

 

Well now there's an entire country to use as a comparison, now it can truly be seen what the effects of legal consumption will be on the general populous.

 

What's missing from these studies, which are far from conclusive given their widely divergent findings, is any measurement of the mental health benefits conferred through cannabis use, in comparison to other common forms of self-medication like alcohol or opiate use.