VIANARCHRIS
Well-Known Member
I don't think I'm wrong. Impaired driving will be an obstacle and will be the subject of court challenges for years. Any test will need to prove impairment and not simply indicate the presence of THC. I wake up with a higher thc level than the numbers I have heard tossed around. This part of legalization would have happened in much the same way regardless of who is in power...if you have some ideas, write some letters and let them be known.
I am serious about dispensaries being here to stay. The raids are not coming at the direction of Ottawa, they are local issues based on public complaints or biases of provincial and municipal governments. Vancouver PD only bust if there is proof of sales to youth, and the city has licensed them. Other cities are doing the same and even small towns like Port Alberni have licensed one. It just reinforces my opinion of provincial and municipal governments attempting to form their own system of mj distribution and taxation ahead of legalization. Dispensaries will be a player in any new system unless a province bans it themselves. Saskatchewan and Alberta are not necessarily the most progressive provinces...
The LPC said they would begin the process right away...which they did. I'm not sure where Blair said he was basing legalization on the mmpr (link?) but considering the mmpr has been struck down as unconstitutional, I think plans might have changed, if that was indeed the intent. I have heard nothing about banning homegrows and I am fairly certain in my analysis of why they will have no justifiable reason to ban them. It remains an unknown, but I'd put money on it.
I cringed when they named Blair as a candidate in the election, and again when they named him to head up this file. Regardless, he is tasked with chairing a committee to develop 'the system the rest of the world will emulate'...he is only one voice...we have many. The one thing they will avoid at all costs is a constitutional challenge on limiting freedoms by banning growing a plant the courts have already said poses no risk, and whose product is infinitely less dangerous than legal home brews.
We'll see what happens and I'm sure there will be things we don't like, but it's to be expected with a change like this. Like anything else, we advocate for the changes we want and eventually we reach a place everyone can live in.
I'll be the first one to turn on the LPC if they come out with anything that doesn't allow dispensaries and home grows...but I prefer to wait until I've been wronged before I react, and that hasn't happened. Glass half full vs. glass half empty? Anyway, let's watch it play out and jump in when we need to...I don't think there is any worries...
Peace
I am serious about dispensaries being here to stay. The raids are not coming at the direction of Ottawa, they are local issues based on public complaints or biases of provincial and municipal governments. Vancouver PD only bust if there is proof of sales to youth, and the city has licensed them. Other cities are doing the same and even small towns like Port Alberni have licensed one. It just reinforces my opinion of provincial and municipal governments attempting to form their own system of mj distribution and taxation ahead of legalization. Dispensaries will be a player in any new system unless a province bans it themselves. Saskatchewan and Alberta are not necessarily the most progressive provinces...
The LPC said they would begin the process right away...which they did. I'm not sure where Blair said he was basing legalization on the mmpr (link?) but considering the mmpr has been struck down as unconstitutional, I think plans might have changed, if that was indeed the intent. I have heard nothing about banning homegrows and I am fairly certain in my analysis of why they will have no justifiable reason to ban them. It remains an unknown, but I'd put money on it.
I cringed when they named Blair as a candidate in the election, and again when they named him to head up this file. Regardless, he is tasked with chairing a committee to develop 'the system the rest of the world will emulate'...he is only one voice...we have many. The one thing they will avoid at all costs is a constitutional challenge on limiting freedoms by banning growing a plant the courts have already said poses no risk, and whose product is infinitely less dangerous than legal home brews.
We'll see what happens and I'm sure there will be things we don't like, but it's to be expected with a change like this. Like anything else, we advocate for the changes we want and eventually we reach a place everyone can live in.
I'll be the first one to turn on the LPC if they come out with anything that doesn't allow dispensaries and home grows...but I prefer to wait until I've been wronged before I react, and that hasn't happened. Glass half full vs. glass half empty? Anyway, let's watch it play out and jump in when we need to...I don't think there is any worries...
Peace