Canadas upcoming plan to legalize the recreational use of cannabis may allow you to indulge in the privacy of your own homebut the grass isnt always greener on the other side. Thats because you have to make sure you watch out for these 5 things that the upcoming law will most likely make illegal:
- Driving over per se marijuana limits. While under current law its illegal to drive under the impairment of either alcohol or drugs, only alcohol has a per se limit, which means that anyone blowing a 0.08 BAC or more would be subject to a conviction. The same cant currently be said about cannabis, which will soon have its own limit of 2 ng/ml of whole blood. Anyone found with that amount or higher in their bloodstream within two hours of driving a car will soon be subject to a summary conviction, or an indictable.
- Public display of cannabis accessories such as bongs and pipes in the windowsills of shops. Gone will be the lavish displays of water pipes and bongs that some head shops have sitting in their windows. Thats because a provision of the new Cannabis Act would prohibit the display of cannabis or cannabis accessories in an fashion that is accessible to young people. The sale of bongs is technically illegal, but is hardly enforced. Will police across Canada have a new Cannabis Accessory Enforcement division? Probably not, but the new law could be enforced with new vigour.
- False promotion is prohibited in the new law. Gone will be the days of dealers claiming the strain they sold you was Alaskan Thunderfuck when in fact it they know it was just some basic C-warp. Stores or licensed producers that knowingly do that under legalization will be subject to imprisonment of up to three years and could also face administrative monetary penalties.
- Cannabis companies would now be banned from sponsoring people, places, and events. Medical licensed producer companies have sponsored such entities in the past, including Mettrum with their Mettrum Originals Lawn at the Budweiser Stage at Ontario Place in Toronto. Tweed runs its annual Front Yard Shindig hosted yearly on the front yard of the former Hershey factory that Tweed now operates from. The company also has its own artist-in-residence, Ezra Soiferman. And then we have the matter of Snoop Doggs contract with Tweed and their collaboration with the Leafs by Snoop line. The new law may put all that into jeopardy, but cannabis companies are crafty and will find ...
