In less than a week, Canadians will be able to buy weed legally. That’s about the only certainty as the country ends a century of prohibition against pot.
Will the pot-starved or curious come out by the millions to purchase their first legal joint? Or will legalization day be anticlimactic, considering anyone who wants to smoke pot is probably already doing it?
Whatever happens on Oct. 17, it’s just the beginning of the public policy experiment that makes Canada only the second country to legalize recreational marijuana. (The first was Uruguay, which legalized pot in 2013 and started selling cannabis in pharmacies in 2017.)
The results will unfold for years, as Canada legalizes a wider variety of products and discovers how legal cannabis changes our economy and our society.
Jacquie Miller – National Post – October 15, 2018.
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