Cannabis Report Recommendations Would Delay Legalization To 2018 Or 2019

again...as has been said from day one...No legalization this spring


MMAR STAND TALL!!

LPS ARE FUCKED

Legalizing cannabis for non-medical or "recreational" use is one of the most anticipated changes to Canadian society. In his election campaign, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to legalize and regulate non-medical cannabis use.1 In April 2016, Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott said in a speech to the United Nations that Canada would "... introduce legislation in spring 2017 that ensures we keep marijuana out of the hands of children and profits out of the hands of criminals."

Subsequently, in June 2016, Minister Philpott appointed a nine-member panel to consult with Canadians and prepare a report on the new legislative and regulatory framework for legal access to cannabis (the "Panel"). While drafting the Report, the Panel considered nine public policy objectives, although the chief objectives were "... keeping cannabis out of the hands of children and youth and keeping profits out of the hands of organized crime."2

On December 13, 2016, the federal government published the Panel's final report, "A Framework for the Legalization and Regulation of Cannabis in Canada" (the "Report")3. The Report's approximately 80 recommendations would make the regulation of cannabis very similar to tobacco and alcohol.

Despite the federal government's stated intention to move quickly to legalize and regulate non- medical cannabis use, the Panel's recommendations contained in the Report have been interpreted as a "go slow" approach.4 Passing and implementing the required legislation, regulations and other related measures, such as drug impairment detection devices, would likely take until 2018 or 2019 to implement.5

Highlights from the Panel's recommendations are paraphrased below:

A. Minimizing Harms of Use

1. Minimum age of purchase of 18, or other provincial minimum age for purchase of alcohol (e.g., 19 in Ontario).
2. Restrictions on advertising and promotion of cannabis, including sanctions for false or misleading promotion and encouragement of excessive consumption, and regulation of therapeutic claims.
3. Plain and childproof packaging that meets new labeling requirements.
4. Prohibit any product deemed to be "appealing to children," (e.g., candy style or cartoon packaging).
5. Restrictions on size and contents of edible cannabis products.
6. Prohibit products that mix cannabis with alcohol, tobacco, nicotine or caffeine.
7. Tax cannabis products, including a price and tax scheme to discourage purchase of high-potency products.
8. Work with existing federal, provincial and territorial bodies to better understand potential occupational health and safety issues related to cannabis impairment and facilitate the development of workplace impairment policies.

B. Establishing a Safe and Responsible Supply Chain

1. Regulate production of cannabis and other products (e.g., edibles).
2. Use licensing to encourage diverse competitive cannabis market.
3. No co-location of alcohol or tobacco and cannabis sales, wherever possible.
4. Limits on the density and location of storefronts, including appropriate distance from schools.
5. Permit a direct-to-consumer mail-order system.
6. A limit of four plants, maximum 100 cm, per residence.
7. Reasonable security measures to prevent theft and youth access.

C. Enforcing Public Safety and Protection

1. Maintain criminal offences for trafficking to use, illicit production, possession for the purposes of export.
2. Limit of 30 grams for the personal possession of non-medical dried cannabis in public.
3. Restrict cannabis smoking and vaping in the same manner as public tobacco smoking.
4. Permit cannabis lounges and tasting rooms, with safeguards to prevent underage use and co-consumption with alcohol.
5. Create national public education strategy to avoid impaired driving.
6. Develop roadside drug screening device for detecting impairment due to cannabis.

D. Medical Access

1. Maintain a separate medical access framework to support patients.
2. Apply the same tax system for medical and non-medical cannabis products.
3. Research use of cannabis for medical purposes.

Until the federal government implements legislation to legalize cannabis and regulate its production and use, the current criminal restrictions remain in place. Prime Minister Trudeau was recently quoted as saying the "current prohibition [of cannabis] stands", emphasizing that the federal government would not be "legalizing marijuana to please recreational users."6

There is particular concern over storefront dispensaries in Toronto and Montréal that are operating in contravention of the current criminal and municipal laws.7 Under the laws currently in force, the only legal marijuana is that supplied for medicinal purposes to users with a prescription from a medical doctor. There are thirty-six producers in Canada that are licensed to supply marijuana by registered mail. Production, sale, possession and use for so-called "recreational use" remains a criminal offence. Storefront dispensaries are operating in contravention of the current laws, and will be targeted for enforcement by police and municipal authorities until the laws have changed.

We will continue to monitor the development of the legislation and related measures for the legalization of cannabis. As marijuana use becomes more mainstream, educators and employers will need updated policies and procedures to detect and deter impairment in the workplace and school environment.

Ha, you're right on there, LP's have enough issues as-is, delaying rec will leave them the export market. Our medical patients won't buy their banned pesticide infected shwagg

Did you see number 7.....
"Tax cannabis products, including a price and tax scheme to discourage purchase of high-potency products."

WTf does that mean?????

powdery mildew cares nowt for dates

The Hippy said:

Did you see number 7.....
"Tax cannabis products, including a price and tax scheme to discourage purchase of high-potency products."

WTf does that mean?????

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yet they sell over proof rum.....
you can get various strengths of beer and wine...and if that won't cut it, you can have spirits.
it's disgusting they want to do that to cannabis consumers but booze is all OK

doingdishes said:

yet they sell over proof rum.....
you can get various strengths of beer and wine...and if that won't cut it, you can have spirits.
it's disgusting they want to do that to cannabis consumers but booze is all OK

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I hopped over to Quebec and got a couple bottles of 94% Alcool for making tinctures and RSO. No extra taxes on hard alcohol over beer at the LCBO either. This would hold no merit under scrutiny and wouldn't hold up to a challenge in court. They're going down kicking and screaming the whole way to legalization.

What a fucking shit show. Trudeau is going to lose major consensus of the governed if this happens.

Judging by the % cannabinoids on the WA state labels (especially concentrates), the numbers have very little to do with impediment (unlike alcohol).

MADD Canada is the reason for the stupidity surrounding driving testing. They are a bunch of communist idiots. Fuck them. I hate impaired driving as much as the next person but they can't prove impairment by some magical number. It's different for everyone. Seasoned medicators are not impaired 1 iota.

All cannabis users should boycott MADD Canada.

HerbalRelief said:

MADD Canada is the reason for the stupidity surrounding driving testing. They are a bunch of communist idiots. Fuck them. I hate impaired driving as much as the next person but they can't prove impairment by some magical number. It's different for everyone. Seasoned medicators are not impaired 1 iota.

All cannabis users should boycott MADD Canada.

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Madd is a SCUN group of mother fuckers...always have been...they hate booz period. They just petend to only care of the driving aspect...BULLSHIT in bag.
I've boycotted them since day one.
They are tea toting prohibitionists.

The Hippy said:

Did you see number 7.....
"Tax cannabis products, including a price and tax scheme to discourage purchase of high-potency products."

WTf does that mean?????

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Translation: F*k LP's, JT, HC, and "legalization" until they do it right and treat it as what it is, our f'n plant $%#!

I really boggles my mind that so many groups in society want and even expect everyone to "bend to their will". If I am in my house smoking a joint for pain relief and as a sleep aid who am I hurting or endangering. WTF, who the fuck even cares. So much for freedoms and human rights.

I do not give a shit anymore, that is my human right, and I can tell you that feeling gets you a little closer to feeling FREEDOM.
Just sayin!

it'll be interesting when there's 1000 dispensaries in Canada and a huge supply of green market weed at around 1k/lb. they want to convert that whole market to selling lp weed, no concentrates or edibles. I've heard rumors of LPs already acquiring dispensaries, for client lists and locations.

c ray said:

I've heard rumors of LPs already acquiring dispensaries, for client lists and locations.

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I've heard that as well. I was told of at least one dispensary in TO that has already been acquired by Tweed, AND is still operating right now....wtf?

gotta get rid of shit...sell it any which way you can...
garbage is something that doesnt sell.


oh they are going to find out quick what it means to produce shwag

c ray said:

it'll be interesting when there's 1000 dispensaries in Canada and a huge supply of green market weed at around 1k/lb. they want to convert that whole market to selling lp weed, no concentrates or edibles. I've heard rumors of LPs already acquiring dispensaries, for client lists and locations.

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like I tried to tell the new one... any one,,,,any way...

cash is KING! ALWAYS WILL BE

TheRealDman said:

I've heard that as well. I was told of at least one dispensary in TO that has already been acquired by Tweed, AND is still operating right now....wtf?

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which Dispensary is that now?
They need a complaint !11 lol

and need to be shown what it is to be who they want to be

c ray said:

...I've heard rumors of LPs already acquiring dispensaries, for client lists and locations.

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I'd imagine a potential large buyout for their location/s is going through a lot of minds, and is motivating some people to expand. Once able, LP's would clearly benefit from taking over these brick-and-mortar stores.

vancityj said:

I'd imagine a potential large buyout for their location/s is going through a lot of minds, and is motivating some people to expand. Once able, LP's would clearly benefit from taking over these brick-and-mortar stores.

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The very stores they lobbied to have closed? The very stores to be raided during the fancy LP expo in Toronto last year with the $600 entry? Yeah, fuck LPs and what would benefit them. They never once thought about what benefits patients.