On Wednesday, the New York Times reports, Canada will become just the second country in the world to legalize cannabis, after almost a century during which it was illegal.
(For the record, Uruguay was first.)
The Times writes that “as the legalization date approaches, much of the focus has been on logistics - setting up laws for where people can smoke and buy cannabis, figuring out how the police will test drivers for its signs, drafting workplace policies and jockeying for a piece of the booming multibillion-dollar industry.
“But the pop-up cannabis market - where everything will remain illegal until next year, when the sale of cannabis-infused edibles and other products becomes legal - prompts larger questions about how cannabis will change the culture of Canada. Will it turn stereotypically polite and slightly reserved Canadians into laid-back, summery people?”
You can read the story here … and maybe ask yourself how this will play out in the US when, inevitably, the same changes happen here.
(For the record, Uruguay was first.)
The Times writes that “as the legalization date approaches, much of the focus has been on logistics - setting up laws for where people can smoke and buy cannabis, figuring out how the police will test drivers for its signs, drafting workplace policies and jockeying for a piece of the booming multibillion-dollar industry.
“But the pop-up cannabis market - where everything will remain illegal until next year, when the sale of cannabis-infused edibles and other products becomes legal - prompts larger questions about how cannabis will change the culture of Canada. Will it turn stereotypically polite and slightly reserved Canadians into laid-back, summery people?”
You can read the story here … and maybe ask yourself how this will play out in the US when, inevitably, the same changes happen here.
- KC's View:
