Canada’s kind of a dream destination for me, too. Pot aside, I loved the scenes in Bowling For Columbine where he went to Canada and kept going up to people and asking “Aren’t you scared?” and they were like “Of what?”
No wonder, if pot’ll be legal.
no sites barred on this post but isn’t Canada legalizing HEMP production too? Rope and soap besides dope.
hawaii is looking at the legalization of HEMP to re-cultivate the now dimized sugar and pineapple fields. For Hemp products and to keep down the dust. In the Phillipines they grew the fast growing, friendly Hemp plant where the mudslides wiped out their part of the earth.
The only reason growing HEMP in the USA is illegal is because of the Dupont Company, with patents siezed from Post-ww2- Losing Germany. The most important one being PLASTIC which is a by-product of oil. Still pisses me off. Just think how much further and clean the world would be if we were running AND sustaining on a bio-degradable, earth friendly product. Instead, making it illegal for production.
Go Canada! Show the World How to do it right!
You know, I think all the answers to your question are in the news story you cited:
Section 2 of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act defines “traffic” as follows:
By this definition, running a “coffee shop” to sell cannabis (a Schedule II substance) would likely be considered trafficking. If the bill will increase penalties for trafficking, I can’t see “coffee shops” springing up. We’ll just have to wait for it to be tabled to know for sure.
C’mon, Piper, you’re runing a perfectly good conspiracy theory.
I dunno. I think it was the “Amsterdam” and “private business” bits. 
I don’t really see how you can tax something that’s not legal. Speeding is kinda similar: I don’t go to jail, but I pay a fine. I can’t buy a “speeding licence” or anything. That’s just what I’m saying.
I for one hope it causes at least some people to realize that pot is not the human crisis the anti-drug people would have you believe. If nothing else its pissing them off which brings me great joy.
No offense meant, yola, but what is with the eccentric capitalization? Are you thinking hemp is an acronym? (It isn’t, it’s related to the German Hanf which comes from the Greek kannabis.) Cecil Adams (courtesy of Northern Piper) has criticized the Du Pont conspiracy theory, but I am still wondering if anyone ever took him up on
Is there any objective material? By “objective” I don’t mean “perfect”, I am just wondering if there is anything at all here other than point-blank assertions with the usual lack of contemporary documentation (c.f. “[Colonel Sanders] puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes you crave it fortnightly.”)
Sheesh, tow the party line much? Hemp’s already legal in most places (including, f’rinstance, the US), and its not all that popular. Why? Is it a huge conspiracy? Nah, its just that hemp isn’t all that useful. Yeah, it finds its way into birdseed, and hemp rope is probably still made, but most other uses (clothing, say) are already better served by man-made (or other natural) sources.
I’m quite pro-legalization, myself. And I think the hemp “movement” is a bit silly and disingenuous. When I see a similar movement for other unsung miracle plants that can’t also double as a recreational drug (and yeah, I’m aware that hemp fiber doesn’t come from cannabis plants grown for smokin’), I’ll consider it a bit more credible.
That’s part of the vision statement: “Fighting ignorance since 1973”
I suppose next you’re going to tell me the pyramid on the back of the one dollar bill has nothing to do with the Masons and the lizardmen that secretly control the world. Psh.