46 Replies to “Whoa, dude.”

  1. Torstar seems to think that they can spin this story by suggesting merely by tabling a bill the liberals have fufilled an election promise.
    Uhm don’t they have get that niggling detail of royal assent done before they can declare a law is actually a law?
    But I digress
    This bill appears to be hastily thrown together due to some sence of urgency to show the liberals have actually fufilled something other than running a deficit.
    Not gonna go into the detailed explanation of all the unintended consequences so I will limit my comment by referring to a line in the American Declaration of Independence.
    Creating laws for fashionable or transient reasons are only as good as the fashionable trend it was created for.
    This is all bread and circuses.
    Juthtin was given a majority and what was he ready right now to accomplish with it?
    Increased debt and government control of a recreational drug market.

  2. ‘Secular’ governors believe ‘go forth and multiply’ relates to expanding the reach of laws and policies.

  3. Of course most things here are federal top down instead of provinces deciding what will be illegal or not within their boundaries.

  4. The Media’s angle on this issue is to run some PR for the dim-wit actor by declaring that “its a promise kept”, all other considerations within this “kept promise” are irrelevant.

  5. I. Just. Don’t. Care.
    Both potheads and government – federal, provincial, whatever – richly deserve each other.

  7. Me too, at this point.
    JUST. TAX. THE. SHT. OUT. OF. IT.
    Make the stoner brigade pay for their stupidity!
    Make them pay for the NDPees reckless spending if BC turns lunatic on May 7th

  8. All that is required by the feds is to decriminalize cannabis by removing it from SCHEDULE II of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, then leave the rest up to the Provinces and Territories to do as they see fit for their jurisdictions.
    This could be done simply and easily if that was their actual intent.
    This whole exercise is nothing but posturing and distraction by Fearless Leader Trudie and his minions in an attempt to look like they’re keeping a promise.

  9. I’m not sure what you’re whining about… I never mentioned the Provinces of Trudopia, or their so called “whining”… My post was in reference to the cardboard cutout getting some “free” PR from the corrupt Media, “promise kept” garbage. Personally I couldn’t care less whether the Hells Angels and organized crime drug trade is about to be in a competition with Juthtins dope selling buddies. If Juthtin and the Libranos want to sell weed to children alongside the Hells Angels and the Mafia then have at er, thats just Libranos being Libranos. Nothing I say or do will change anything, it doesn’t matter, thats how Trudopiastan works. What nauseates me is the corrupt Media cheerleading this half baked incoherent expansion of the drug trade as a “promise kept”, like its a virtuous undertaking, which it is not. That narrative is preposterous and ridiculous. You like doing dope, you like the Libranos nurturing and fostering a culture of dopes as a cash resource than fine, I couldn’t care less what happens in Trudopiastan. Hells Angels, Mafia, Libranos, its all the same thing. If the corrupt Media is going to cheer on the Libranos muscling in on the drug trade (“a promise kept”) then they should also cheer on the Hells Angels and the Mafia too, they were there first, and their intentions are just as “virtuous” as the Libranos.

  10. DanBC >
    “JUST. TAX. THE. SHT. OUT. OF. IT.”
    Nah, they’ll just skirt the law as they do now.
    What will work better is tightening employment standards on drug usage and utilize random drug testing more often and in expanded areas of employment.
    There is no reasonable argument that Canadians can’t demand that politicians and lawmakers who hold the power of their offices over the taxpayer be screened for drug usage while in office.
    Think of all the pothead ski instructors that would disqualify themselves from running the country.

  11. No argument from me Knight. The whole issue is ludicrous, what with the draconian rules around smokes, and the willfully ignorance around the dope issue.

  12. UnoMe >
    “I’d rather just have freedom. The provinces/territories should not be allowed to say no to freedom.”
    But that’s the great thing about Countries, provinces, and states with borders, they give you choices and the freedom to move to somewhere you do fit in.

  14. Ha ha ha ha … they’re gonna … “hash” it out. Does that mean hashshish will be legalized too ?
    I agree … legalize DOPE … and SIN TAX the crap out of it !! It’s hardly a “medicine” … it is a SIN. It makes the user STUPID, SLOW, and DULL. Tax it.

  15. If I made liquor in basement and sold it off my back porch I would be thrown in jail, and this will be no different.

  17. Is cannabis addictive? Is alcohol or tobacco addictive? Are cell phones or watching sports games addictive?
    The answer is the same in all cases: For some folks ‘yes’, for some folks ‘no’. It all depends on your personality and how obsessive/compulsive you are. If you have an obsessive/compulsive personality you will likely be addicted to something.
    Anyone who can’t possibly miss a hokey playoff game, has no cause to criticize anyone for toking a bit of weed.

  18. ” If you have an obsessive/compulsive personality you will likely be addicted to something.”
    Completely agree with you. There are nutbars that post here that think getting fry grease makes sense. There are others that think if they eat something that is grown in pig shit (because their dead grandfather said so) will make you live forever.
    Go figure.

  19. ” If you have an obsessive/compulsive personality you will likely be addicted to something.”
    Completely agree with you. There are nutbars that post here that think getting fry grease makes sense. There are others that think if they eat something that is grown in pig shit (because their dead grandfather said so) will make you live forever.
    Go figure.

  20. Trudeau just opened another Pandora’s box and we, the Canadian taxpayer, will reap the whirlwind that has been unleashed. This is what you get when the voting population of the feminine persuasion, the university socialists, and the utopia dreamers get to vote. None of them have a gnat’s clue about unintended consequences. The best of it is that this will impact all of us that have never used or have ever needed the weed. More road checks, more difficulties in travel, higher costs in everything, the list goes on and on. For those of you who are still preaching the “Enjoy the Decline.” doctrine I’m just a little PO’ed at the utter stupidity that this country has descended to. The minorities in this country that have subjected the rest of us to this unlimited madness, trans-gender this and that, Islamophobia, Green power, multiculturalism, post national state, undocumented immigrants and refugees, these minorities have cowed sane Canadians into submission and preaching that we should “Enjoy the Decline.” just doesn’t cover it anymore. I am not enjoying the decline and I’d like to see anyone that is. When are we going to wake up and take back the country that we all strove so valiantly for.

  21. Making biodiesel from free fryer oil = 50% savings in fuel for a diesel truck…and it’s tax free.
    Pissing off people who are too stupid to figure out how to do it — priceless!!!

  23. When are we going to wake up and take back the country that we all strove so valiantly for.
    When it gets bad enough for the West to separate and keep it’s transfer payments that are funding this socialist foolishness.
    What will it take for complacent Canadians to get angry enough to do it? Trudie is counting on it being “never”.
    captcha= galica angers

  25. filing your lungs with smoke, of any sort, on a regular basis, will eventually kill you.

  26. They can’t say no if it is decriminalized. They can only choose nit to sell it which surely would not be a great imposition for pot users who seem to have no difficulty acquiring it.

  27. This bill is no different from any other that is based on fashion and not reason.
    There will be unintended consequences.
    Ask this:
    Is it a virtue or is it a vice?
    If it is a vice, should the government be seeking to derive a benefit (tax revenue) from it?
    If the government is deriving said benefit from this vice, does this now change it from a vice to a virtue?
    If the governed will allow this legal fiction to proceed, what stops this government from using the same logic for any other vice because it needs to increase its revenues?

  29. Hmm. As I recall, a number of well connected Liberals made piles if money on the green agenda also. Is there a pattern here?

  30. Landlord group wants stricter limits on where Canadians can grow marijuana
    A national landlord group says the federal government should change its proposed marijuana legalization bill to ban people from growing plants in rented homes or multi-unit buildings.
    …
    The Canadian Federation of Apartment Associations, which represents landlords that manage rental units across the country, said that allowance goes too far.
    “Fundamentally we want marijuana growing to still be prohibited in rental units and in multiple-dwelling units, [which] include condos [and] co-operatives,” federation president John Dickie told CBC News.
    “Because, from that point of view, there are impacts on the neighbours.”
    Health, safety concerns
    Dickie said people should only be able to grow marijuana in single-family homes that they own since, that way, their actions only really affect them.
    He contrasted that with rented homes and multi-unit buildings, where landlords and other tenants’ health and personal enjoyment could be at risk from some of the issues that might arise from growing marijuana, which include:
    Mould problems caused by the humidity required to grow marijuana, which could erode drywall and window seals.
    An overtaxed electrical system due to the grow lamps needed to keep marijuana plants alive during the winter.
    Increased fire hazards due to people drying marijuana in a household stove.
    Odours from plants getting into other people’s units.
    “I think the government is obviously balancing a lot of issues here,” Dickie said.
    “They do want to break the black market, and that’s important. But we think we can break the black market if they let people [only] grow it in their own owner-occupied homes, and the product is readily available in stores or by mail order.”
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/canada-legal-marijuana-growing-landlords-1.4071323

  31. “I. Just. Don’t. Care.”
    Case I. You are living in a multi-family building. Do you really want to be surrounded by dopeheads?
    Case II. You live in a detached house. Your child plays with or attends same school/class as the neighbour’s kid — who is a dopehead. Do you want his bad influence to corrupt your child?

  32. “Landlord group wants stricter limits on where Canadians can grow marijuana’
    It’s a valid point, unfortunately that includes 98% pot-head habitat.
    Government assisted housing, a welfare check, 4 pot plants and, a free Health Services sex change – what more does any good Liberal Progressive need?

  33. My point about fashionable laws was in regard to the outcome.
    It was also more importantly about the government using that as a justification for legitimizing a vice with the intent of creating a new tax while wrapping themselves in the false venerer of social justice. That defines the government as acting in bad faith.
    The same way the government would create a false narrative of an impending man made disaster to impose higher taxes and intrusive laws.

  34. Joseph >
    ‘…the government would create a false narrative of an impending man made disaster to impose higher taxes and intrusive laws.”
    Carbon Tax.

  35. As I said a Pandora’s Box. The landlords concerns are only the tip of the iceberg so to speak. When you enter the real estate market what will be the evaluation assessment of a single family dwelling that has a known history of a marijuana grow operation. As far as the four plant maximum, yeah that’s going to work out really well. Now how about a used car that someone buys and the previous owner was a weed smoker, try getting into the US in that. The unintended consequences are going to be monumental.

  36. Two likely results.
    As with the Proportional Representation fiasco, it will turn out to be too much work,with too many party negatives, voter loss that is, so Liberals will run away as usual.
    And of course the obvious,
    Government help in the distribution and retailing of dope will have the normal consequences a national shortage of dope and massive supplies of impotent hemp..resulting in windfall profits for the current distributors.
    Leading to another “law and Order Crisis” which the Liberals will not waste..imposing ever more controls on the citizens..for our own good of course.

  37. Four weed plants are not going to cause any more damage than any other house plants. Some people already have more than four ‘normal’ house plants.
    If odors from one unit are migrating into other units, then there are problems with the building ventilation system. Either it’s not designed correctly or not being maintained correctly.

  38. Liberalism ultimately devolves to communism. More problems require more and more fixes until the fixes imposed invade every other segment of government. The effects on real estate, I’m sure slipped right past the people discussing the ‘how tos’ of legalization.
    How many inspectors are going to be hired to make sure that the stuff that is going to be available is up to standard and if that standard is too low, is the regular consumer going keep buying it at the licensed outlet or is he/she going to re-acquaint him/her self with the previous supplier. That stuff will no doubt, be just a tiny bit stronger than the ‘Flin Flon’ variety through the use of ‘additives’. As well, I assume that the 7-11s will have to have an entire wall fixed with those roll-up things so we can’t see what is behind them.
    This entire effort is going to be truly entertaining. Imagine the future selfies.

  39. This is like any other government bandwagon. As soon as they smell the scent of free government money they will jump on board.

  41. As I’ve said here before I don’t play the troll game, therefore I don’t even read what they comment on never mind answering them. Most of them lead a very pathetic life and I would hate to add to their misery by indulging them.

  42. If you are allowed to grow up to four MJ plants in your domicile
    1) how will the government get its tax money?
    2) how will a parent keep it away from their underage children? (ie do they go to jail if their child smokes up with or without the parental permission?)

  43. “Pissing off people who are too stupid to figure out how to do it — priceless!!!”
    Making people think that you are pissed off … instead of being amused by someone that is a nutbar … priceless!!!!
    Kook o … Kook o …

  44. Yup, don’t indulge trolls, the attention is what they’re here for. It’s easy to ignore them since they very seldom ever make any meaningful contribution to the discourse.

  46. Over here in Germany where I am, they took this story so seriously that they used precious prime-time broadcasting time in the flagship news program in state-run tv to report in detail on it.

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