Solving the Dutch Pot Paradox: Legal to Buy, but Not to Grow
“Right now, you are allowed to buy the milk, but you can’t know anything about the cow,”
“Right now, you are allowed to buy the milk, but you can’t know anything about the cow,”
The Liberal government’s cannabis legalization bill cleared a key vote Thursday evening, passing 44 to 29 at second reading and sending it off to committee review.
The bill would revise certain requirements concerning patient access to medical marijuana. Specifically, it provides for alternative treatment centers to make medical marijuana available to patients in oil form, removes restrictions that made edible forms of medical marijuana available only to qualifying patients who are minors, and removes the current 2-ounce limit on the quantity of medical marijuana that may be dispensed in a 30-day supply.
“The drawer pulls out; you drop your stuff in and you close it. You can’t really get your hand in there,”
Some experts are pushing for marijuana to be an alternative other than opioid for those suffering from pain as the U.S. is currently experiencing an “opioid crisis.” Critics of marijuana say the green herb is a gateway drug.
Depending the on the outcome of the legalization matter, the question on age regulation will then bring another vote from the people of Illinois, if recreational marijuana should have the same age regulations as tobacco and alcohol, 21 and over.
The plants from this harvest will be cured, trimmed and packaged for sale to Kaya Herbhouse in
St. Ann set to open in March, for the 1st sale to medical patients and Everything Oily
It began with parents of children with epilepsy, who met with legislators to discuss using cannabis as medicine.
However, the new industry is being tightly regulated. To gain approval to grow cannabis, companies must gain permission via three separate public bodies:
Canada will be the first developed nation to legalize the recreational use of marijuana and the second after Uruguay.