We had a bill that was going to legalize it in 2005, but the Liberal government fell to the Tories who ultimately didn’t pass it. The Libs are back in power now so legalization is back on track.
I thought your Federal government still considered marijuana illegal but didn’t enforce that prohibition in those states that consider it legal? In our case when it is made legal it will be legal nation-wide.
Yes, but the states are collecting taxes on it, so it looks legal enough to me.
Everyone’s concentrating on the mj legalization, but my point was that there are two things they are going to legalize and they made the announcements only a week apart. There are other states (CO and AK) that have legal recreational mj and other states (CA and VT) that have physician assisted suicide. OR and WA are the only ones with both.
I suppose that instead of calling you copycats, I should have said something like “welcome to the 21st century…”
I think he is refering to the Dutch having something more extreme than death-with-dignity (i.e. euthanasia) and the infamous Amsterdam coffeeshops where weed is smoked with wild abandon. However, it should be noted that marijuana is technically illegal in the Netherlands.
Really doubt that was what they were refering to. However, after I posted my last post (quoting multiple other posts is still not working), I realized that, as others have pointed out, mj is still technically illegal in Oregon and Washington, just as it is in Netherlands although for different reasons. So I guess they have a point, we’re copycatting the Netherlands. But we were copying them first!