Thursday, October 18, 2018
PMT: Canada legalizes pot
Yesterday, Canada became the first major economy to legalize recreational marijuana across the country. As the New York Times reports, Canadians can now legally possess up to 30 grams of marijuana for personal use or sharing with others.
By contrast, US policy at the federal level still lists marijuana as a schedule I narcotic-- higher than cocaine, which is in schedule II. Some states, of course, have legalized marijuana to various degrees, but the federal law seems entrenched; it somehow remained in Schedule I through the entire Obama administration, which seemed to generally have a pretty good BS detector but also a big dose of timidity.
If the Canadian experiment is successful, it could go a long way towards changing attitudes in the US. But... we'll see.
