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(<\/b>ANTIMEDIA<\/b><\/a>)<\/b> Canada officially moved<\/a> to legalize recreational marijuana on Thursday when the government introduced legislation allowing the possession of small amounts of cannabis. The new law also sets regulations for the sale, growth, and purchase of the plant.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCanada\u2019s federal government set the age at 18, but is allowing each of the provinces to determine if it should be higher. The provinces will also decide how the drug will be sold and distributed. The law also defines the amount of THC in a driver\u2019s blood, as detected by a roadside saliva test, that would be illegal. Marijuana taxes will be announced at a later date<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vox<\/i> notes<\/a> that \u201c<\/i>Canadians will be allowed to grow up to four marijuana plants per household and possess up to 30 grams per person. For the most part, the bill follows the recommendations made by <\/i>a recent federal task force<\/i><\/a> on marijuana legalization.<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n

The outlet points out that the details of the bill could change as the bill works its way through Parliament, adding that if the legislation passes, it could be illegal under international law, which still favors prohibition. Canada joins Uruguay<\/a>, the only other nation to have fully legalized recreational marijuana (Portugal has had great success with its decriminalization<\/a> of all drugs).<\/p>\n

Canada first allowed<\/a> medical marijuana for terminal illnesses in 2001, and in some parts of the country, like Vancouver, weed shops are legal and law enforcement tolerates<\/a> use of the plant. But the new legislation codifies the rights of all Canadians to use it, even if it still places restrictions on use (for example, attempting to regulate THC blood content in the context of driving \u00a0a car is a controversial<\/a> practice in the United States, where studies show<\/a> driving while high is far less dangerous than driving drunk)<\/p>\n

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Canada Officially Moves to Legalize Recreational Marijuana Nationwide (ANTIMEDIA) Canada officially moved to legalize recreational marijuana on Thursday when the government introduced legislation allowing the possession of small amounts of cannabis. The new law also sets regulations for the sale, growth, and purchase of the plant. USA Today reports: We’re revolutionizing the news industry, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8803,103,12055,15100],"class_list":["post-23547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-antimedia","tag-canada","tag-carey-wedler","tag-marijuana-legalisation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23548,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23547\/revisions\/23548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}