Canada officially "legalised" cannabis on October 17th after a century of unjust prohibition. Me and @Drutter and some other activsts and protestors demonstrated at the Vancouver Art Gallery by toking in public (now legal in BC) but also continuing to engage in civil disobedience that started long before this day, by having a #420FarmersMarket which should be a free market, but under Bill C-45 legalisation it's still a black market. We were also there to bring awareness to the public about legalisation because it's not the end of prohibition as the people have intended for years. Since only the rich and elite can commerce in cannabis and the poor & sick get stigmatized and criminalised, it's obvious that legalisation is a lie and it's just been regalized.
It was a a peaceful day for the most part, except some anti-cannabis crusaders earlier on were protesting that "marijuana kills brain cells", even though scientific evidence shows it promotes hippocampal neurogenesis (new brain cells). There were also a lot of Vancouver police strutting around aimlessly but arrogantly. Everybody should be happy if there were proper legalisation, amnesty and reconciliation, but there's still tension in the air.
Although I criticize legalisation a lot, there is some small good to celebrate. A certain amount of stigma has lifted that in the past was used to abuse and arrest innocent, peaceful Canadians. However, it's too little too late. We're standing on the shoulders of giants, fallen activists - a lot of whom are in jail with no amnesty, have had their lives ruined or have even died in their fight because it is stressful and they were already ill medical users.
I had a really nice conversation that day with a lady named Flower. She was for cannabis (and good rugulations of it) but she wanted to know how to talk to her kids about it because they were teenagers. I told her honesty and openness are the best policy, and she agreed.
We talked some more, and she said regarding legalisation, that cooperation is the best policy. English was her second language, but she had high fluency. Basically what she meant was: solving problems (with good regulations) while letting people do what they want as long as they're not doing harm (cooperation). That's a good thing to remember. Legalisation is hard enough to understand even when English is your first language and/or you know "legalese". Robson Square is an amazing place to meet interesting people from all around the world.
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It is! Quite the place.
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Yeah. This fight is certainly not but lets hope this will push other countries to consider legalization and decriminalization. There will be a lot of court cases to come fighting some of these nonsense rules theyve come up with. Its on us to keep up the pressure and continue taking back our freedoms. Great work @medikate!
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At least you can smoke in Vancouver has a no public smoking by law with 100 dollar fine. Like they never caught me when it was illegal and they still wont catch me now, but its a bullshit rule to say I can smoke cigarettes in public and not weed.
They banned public edible consumption, how the fuck is someone going to know I am eating a pot cookie it looks like every other cookie. The rules across this nation are a crazy patchwork of confusing bullshit. One place its like tobacco, they next place it's banned.
I think smoking it in public all the time is the way to get recognized lounges, potios, coffeeshops whatever you want to call it. Alberta government still saying they will only legalize edible lounges, one day, maybe.
Rules I want to change besides the no lounges rule is the one that says you can only grow your 4 plants at home, I want to be able to grow them in a storage locker or something, my place isn't big enough.
Small growers should have access to market not just giant corporations. Joe the homegrower should be able to take his crop over to his local store and let them sell it. I bought great weed over in Washington and that guy at the dispensary was like I grew that in my basement.
Commercial extraction facilities home growers can access to turn the crops into shatter. Also extracts need to hurry up and be legal.
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Missed this comment before.. lots of good points.
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