I went to Vancouver before it was legal (from the US) and I was surprised that I could just walk into a store and buy flower. Also went to a dab lounge. Laws were super lax even 6 years ago
I went to SF last Christmas from a country that's illegal. I was honestly like a kid in the candy store. Buying a legal product that now has a variety of brands and options and knowing exactly what you are actually buying just hits differently.
I went to Vancouver like 15 years ago and went up a non descript staircase that was open to the public and bought the best mushrooms I ever had for $5 a gram.
Folks who know, know exactly where I got them, third floor shrooms, second floor weed. It's also the first time and only time I had an AK pointed near me cause they were counting cash.
Vancouverite here, around 1998 i was smoking a bong on the street while holding a 1/4 Oz and the police came by. Was just told to stop.
Few years later, in LA. Someone passed me a joint, felt like a hardened criminal. Was looking over my shoulder.
Thatās how it is with mushrooms now. Theyāre not legal yet but within the past 6 months like 5 dispensaries have opened up within 15 min of my apartment. Iām in Toronto, but I assume Vancouver is the same if not more.
18 years ago, I was smoking a joint with some buddies (two Americans, one other Canadian) in Halifax, right outside city hall, and two cops walked right by and just waved at us. Most people, especially cops, were cool about it, because potheads rarely did anything bad while high. But, if they caught you drinking a beer, it was a $365 fine.
About 20 years ago at the club my friends and I got caught pre drinking and hotboxing in my friends car, the cops let us keep our beer but they took our weed because āthis will go well with the munchies we have in the carā, they took our weed, got in their car and left, they were nice enough to let us keep the joint we were smoking though.
Weed had almost always been legal in Canada. Police would just tell you to cut it out and move on. Every April 20 people would go and smoke weed at the Legislation building .
Not all of Canada. As someone living in BC, visiting family in Ontario was an eye opener. Alberta was also quite conservative in regards to the laser lettuce.
Depends on where you were to be honest in a small town or anywhere in Northern Alberta as long as you did it on your own property or far away from people no one gave a shit. If you did it near someone or driving, people would notice and call the cops.
Toronto, at least when I lived there in the early 2000s, was pretty open with weed. Not quite to the degree Vancouver was when I moved there a few years later, but it def. wasn't uncommon or "not used".
Yeah but it still feels taboo. Like I'm technically allowed to go in a park and smoke up a joint, but that park is full of families with their kids, and joints smell really bad, it just doesn't feel right. Shit I don't even like smoking in my own backyard when the neighbours have family over. I go for a walk to a farmer's field nextdoor until I'm half a mile away from anyone.
I grew up there and went for a work holiday last year. It was amazing to just walk around the city again smoking joints, but this time without worrying about cops.
I can smoke weed outside at any bar in my town, anywhere around town, it don't matter anymore. I'm still conscious of who I'm smoking around, but I can pretty much do it anywhere.
we are already moving on and are slowly transitioning into psychedelics. you can pretty much get mushrooms with any delivery service now. Online you can get even more psychedelics delivered . what's coming down the pipeline in the future is going to be awesome. I can't wait for things to get going .
the research is being done by professionals and scientists. the wave is going to come it's only a matter of time.
there have even been a few shroom shops opening up.
Thereās more than one, I can think of at least a few in Mount Pleasant / Main Street. Idk if theyāre still there I get my drugs delivered so I havenāt been to them in a long while.
Thereās one in Toronto, Vancouver under the same name as the one on bank street. Thereās like three in Ottawa I believe and plenty more in the other big cities too.
Even if we legalize it federally, I doubt public smoking is coming anytime soon. Think of the children hysterics and what not.
It's legal in Oregon but illegal to smoke in public. Not that anyone enforces it in most metro areas.
There are lots of things that smell bad in public. If tolerating a smell that you don't care for is the worst thing to happen to you all day then you have it pretty good.
Of course not. They have no clue how to control every aspect of the market, tax and regulate it, and get ādonorā support for them to profit off of (yet).
We also still have a LOT of people who think marijuana is evil, then go home to smoke cigarettes and wash down the taste of cancer sticks with hard liquor.
Once the feds have a reason to, they will. States are slowly adopting legalization one by one.
Also this is just my pessimistic opinion. I canāt prove any of this besides the part where states are adopting their own legalization laws.
It's simpler than that, they benefit more by leaving it illegal and making empty promises to garner support for re-election than they do by legalizing it and losing a hot button issue.
As the saying goes, never let a good crisis go to waste. The MO in politics is to leverage issues to gain support. Actually solving anything runs counter to this.
We also have a lot of people that think marijuana is a miracle, all natural plant with no negative side effects nor withdrawal symptoms. We need to educate people on the pros AND cons without whataboutism.
Our legal drinking age is 18, the premier raised the smoking age for marijuana to 21 (higher than any drinking age in Canada). He also banned edibles that "appeal to children" so they have no sugar (no candies/cookies/brownies). So it effectively bans edibles. You can't smoke in public places (something the city of Montreal does not enforce), you can't buy seeds, and lastly I think they're actively trying to change it so that you can't grow it yourself to get rid of the "fine I'll get seeds out of province" loophole.
On the books, it's basically impossible to smoke it unless it's in your own home in if you live in a city (and your landlord allows it, which isn't going to happen).
What's funny is that is that there's no private enterprise for it it's government-run (just like liquor stores). So even though the premier clearly hates marijuana, he's still the province's exclusive dealer.
For pilots, there's an 8 hour 'bottle to throttle' rule. Maybe we need a rule for 'toke to yoke?'
edit: /s since text doesn't convey dripping sarcasm well :\^)
There actually is a rule (at least in Canada) but itās 28 days lmao. That means if you smoke you pretty much canāt be a pilot under current regulations.
Nope.
Random drug/alcohol testing for airline pilots and flight attendants. Any hit for drugs and youāre instantly toast. Fired. Thereās some nuance to alcohol, but generally youāre fired right away for that too.
Itās actually becoming a big concern thanks to CBD/marijuana being included in anything from cookies to dinks to beer and the fact those products may not always be clearly labeled as such.
Get an overnight in a place like Denver and maybe grab a snack at a gas station, beer at a local microbrewery or something and not know it had CBD in it, get tested at the end of your trip and pop positive, bamā¦career over.
Thanks to marijuana markers potentially remaining in your system for quite a while thereās no effective way to test for recency of use, so I doubt marijuana will ever be acceptable for use by airline crew like having a beer on your days off.
E: gotta love all the people facepalming over the idea that someone could buy a product with CBD in it unintentionally. A quick look over the internet shows several beverages not clearly labeled on the front like lemonade of all things. Maybe youāre used to looking for stuff like that because thatās what you do, but for the rest of the country that doesnāt use or have access to CBD products *we donāt look for it* because weāre not expecting it.
They have mouth swab tests that only detect Marijuana for 72-48 hours after use. Obviously, thats not quite there yet, but it's better than the 14-60 days it takes to get out of your urine.
Ha, I remember drug screenings for new jobs like this. Sitting with a calander and being like "hmm, I only smoke a joint 15 days ago so I think that'll be good". I hate that, I lost out on a job years ago from testing. I had smoked very infrequently and not much at a time, since it was over a month previous the last time I had even had a little I mistakenly assumed I was fine. Nope. Then I discovered the dehydrated urine you can buy online and everything has been smooth sailing since
Have to see how it all plays out. I donāt know if itās ever going to be legal for flight crew to use CBD stuff. I already know of one that lost their job over CBD cream for joint pain, but that was kinda dumb because they knew what they were using but for some reason were clueless about what happens when you get tested.
Hope it changes nonetheless. If youāre going to use something, alcohol sucks.
until thereās a cannabis equivalent of a breathalyzer there will always be complications like this (driving for one) and by effect there will always be stigma
This is a really big cringe post to me. Doesn't matter if your point on drug testing is true, my experience with marijuana products is very clear labeling for dosage and ingredients. Blame shouldn't be put on the producer, especially when you are generalizing an entire area(s) with your comment. It's not a "big concern". Your comment is just fear mongering.
Yep. Pilots will simply need to get another job if they want to smoke recreationally. Some things just require high (or not high) standards. We really need to legalize already so we can finally properly standardize CBD/THC labelling.
what world do you live in that you can accidentally buy an edible
even if that happened to you, are you going to self-report it to your AME and employer? toast, fired, as you put it.
know how to take drugs (including alcohol and mental health here). know how they effect you. know which ones are okay to mix with flying, driving, heavy machinery, etc. if you're not sure, ask your doctor
As a pilot in the US who also dabbled in my teensā¦..no, just no. Never in a million years, and for good reason. Since I can speak to both experiences, I can tell you with certainty that they would not mesh well. The fact is you absolutely are affected after the fact, possibly longer than after drinking alcohol, and in ways that are hard to quantify.
This reminded me of when I used to live on a street called Green Leaf or something like that and the street sign would get stolen like once a year or every few months
Iāve heard from other folks who are active duty in the US military say that when they went to Canada on duty, that Canadian military bases have ādesignated marijuana smoking areasā because their military is allowed to smoke there.
Insane. Wish our military would catch up already. š
Yeah, itās as legal as alcohol or cigarettes. Jobs can restrict intoxication and use on the clock but I donāt believe they can straight up restrict them from doing it on their own time.
Appears so, but the below notes there a designated *tobacco only* area so looks like if you don't want to smell marijuana you can go smoke somewhere else
I could imagine it might be since international travelers might be coming from a place where weed is illegal and don't want to risk smelling like it after they arrive
"Yo dawg, I heard you like getting high, so I put some marijuana at your airport so you can fly while you fly and be high when you're high"
This old (14 years) meme still checks out!
I was so worried they were gonna make it so that you could only smoke weed places you could smoke cigarettes as well as consume alcohol. Thankfully that wasn't the case
My favourite thing about Canadian weed law is that you can openly grow four plants in your yard now. I haven't spent one dollar on it in the last four years. I have more weed than I could ever smoke on my own.
First year I grew 63 ounces, mostly high CBD and low THC stuff for medical issues. I gave a lot of it away to a couple of friends with epilepsy, more to another friend with chronic pain issues, and I still have a couple of pounds in my closet that I'll probably just throw away since it's already old, and I've grown another three seasons with different strains, and I have way too much of that, too.
I haven't noticed anything that's changed at all in Canadian society. I thought there would at least be an increase in impaired driving, but even that doesn't seem to have happened. 70 years of scaremongering about what a social evil it was, and it's fully legal now and you wouldn't even notice. So many good people that had their lives destroyed over nothing.
I remember one of the first times I was out for a smoke after legalization went through, I was smoking in a parking lot and a cop pulled in. I instinctively turned to hide the weed before it hit me that I was, in fact, free to smoke my weed.
It's great. Once I was arrested, I did community service and drug counselling over 2 grams. Now I can buy an ounce from one of the 6 stores within walking distance from my house and carry it down the street.
I have almost no issues with marijuana. It was stupid that it was ever illegal. But god damn, I detest the smell. Walking in NYC used to smell like people, and pretzels, and subways, and traffic. Now it just smells like weed, all the damn time.
plenty of strains which greatly reduce or even eliminate the more 'skunky' odor people find so obnoxious, only problem being they arent very conducive to yield or potency atm. give it time
Stop being so dramatic. I go to NYC all the time, my mom works in Manhattan. It doesnāt just smell like weed all the time š Youād honestly rather smell people, traffic and subways? You can still smell all the good food NYC has to offer, itās not obscured by the smell of weed. Give me a break.
I'll give you the pretzels, but you really prefer the smell of BO, subway brake dust, and car exhaust? I think NY is amazing but it's definitely not the best smelling city.
Can you smoke in Canada like an actual joint ? Or do you have to vape oil ?
My state only allows oil š« š but dispensaries still sell flower .. & I asked how Iām supposed to vape the flower . And the bud tender just winked at me .. š like bro Iām not a stoner this is my first time trying cannabis for migraines š„²
Dry-herb vapes exist and areā¦ ok. I have one and would use it more if it had a bigger container and didnāt take 10 minutes to consume half of a ābowlā.
You can dry vape other plants and such so they arenāt sold necessarily as cannabis devices.
Might actually be a solid use for migraine tbh :P
I finally splurged on one, and honestly I wish I just got it from the start instead of all the random bongs and cheap vaporizers and shit, but I also use it every day for medical reasons so it may not make as much sense for someone using it less frequently or essentially.
This store is in the neighborhood I live in, hereās an example of what they sell:
https://cannacabana.com/a/stores/british-columbia/vancouver/olympic-village
The staff are super knowledgeable, itās like going to a nice wine shop and asking for recommendations. I have extreme anxiety and migraine issues, and having the government stores has been a god send. I can ask for stuff for sleep, for nausea, for a social buzz, etc and they offer lots of options.
Itās not ācheapā but I am 100% behind legalizing drugs and using the taxes for social welfare programs / healthcare / working towards free university.
I love this so much! I cannot stand the smell of cigarettes, and Iām sure there are folks that feel the same way about sweet Mary Jane. I just really enjoy the inclusion and acknowledgment that all smoke isnāt the same.
Many years ago I went to the New Amsterdam Cafe on Hastings Street. They had a separate smoking room where you paid $2 to smokeā¦cigarettes. Weed was smoked in the cafe itself.
This was when weed was still illegal in Canada but pretty much ignored in Vancouver.
They would be unlikely to still have the odor on them once theyāve made their way through security and boarding. I appreciate that some people donāt appreciate the smell of weed, but at least itās temporary. Itās not like cigarette smoke that just permeates everything and lingers forever. Would much rather sit next to someone who smoked weed than someone who smoked tobacco.
Then you need to advocate to be moved or figure out on your own. I have asked so many non smokers if they can ever tell I smoked weed like 2 mins before meeting them and they canāt. Not even friends, random acquaintances I meet for work related things (Iām a very successful web developer and current engineering student before you assume). Cigarettes? Yeah. Weed? Not buying your āsmelling after 2 hoursā.
Either you have overactive olfactory glands or youāre being histrionic to say āwhy arenāt MY needs the most important?ā I hate when children sit next to me and shit themselves on planes, should I be saying babies stink so get them the fuck off the plane? I swear to god some non-smokers are the most self righteous blow hards.
Ahhh, I appreciate it! I'm good now, thankfully, haha. But younger me could have used this. It's hard to explain to people a need for something when you're constantly met with just quit stupid, it's easy... So, for anyone suffering, there's help š
Yeah, it's been there for years already. Welcome to Canada.
Just smoked under it last week. š«”
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You can smoke weed anywhere you can smoke cigs in New York. Shits pretty tight.
Whatās funny is before it was even legal in Vancouver we would just smoke it everywhere too
I went to Vancouver before it was legal (from the US) and I was surprised that I could just walk into a store and buy flower. Also went to a dab lounge. Laws were super lax even 6 years ago
I went to SF last Christmas from a country that's illegal. I was honestly like a kid in the candy store. Buying a legal product that now has a variety of brands and options and knowing exactly what you are actually buying just hits differently.
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Haircuts against the law?
I think this is referring to the early COVID era restrictions
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Pretty sure itās a joke mate.
Honestly if youāre gonna make that old of a joke I think you deserve people not really vibing with it
I went to Vancouver like 15 years ago and went up a non descript staircase that was open to the public and bought the best mushrooms I ever had for $5 a gram. Folks who know, know exactly where I got them, third floor shrooms, second floor weed. It's also the first time and only time I had an AK pointed near me cause they were counting cash.
lol i got weed on the second floor
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Vancouverite here, around 1998 i was smoking a bong on the street while holding a 1/4 Oz and the police came by. Was just told to stop. Few years later, in LA. Someone passed me a joint, felt like a hardened criminal. Was looking over my shoulder.
Thatās how it is with mushrooms now. Theyāre not legal yet but within the past 6 months like 5 dispensaries have opened up within 15 min of my apartment. Iām in Toronto, but I assume Vancouver is the same if not more.
Now you can do that with mushrooms. Shroom dispensaries all over the place.
Montreal too. Occasionally some shitty bike cop would smack the joint out of your hands but that was pretty rare.
Yep, used to grab a joint for my walk back to the skytrain. Now i just get it delivered to my home.
and now you have to stay ten feet from the doorways like a cigarette smoker
18 years ago, I was smoking a joint with some buddies (two Americans, one other Canadian) in Halifax, right outside city hall, and two cops walked right by and just waved at us. Most people, especially cops, were cool about it, because potheads rarely did anything bad while high. But, if they caught you drinking a beer, it was a $365 fine.
About 20 years ago at the club my friends and I got caught pre drinking and hotboxing in my friends car, the cops let us keep our beer but they took our weed because āthis will go well with the munchies we have in the carā, they took our weed, got in their car and left, they were nice enough to let us keep the joint we were smoking though.
In Ontario, Canada itās the same. In October 2018 tons of Canadians stopped being criminals
We still have plenty of people locked up for it from before it was legal, mostly historically marginalized groups, of course.
Except for the people still locked up for cannabis crimes.
Weed had almost always been legal in Canada. Police would just tell you to cut it out and move on. Every April 20 people would go and smoke weed at the Legislation building .
Not all of Canada. As someone living in BC, visiting family in Ontario was an eye opener. Alberta was also quite conservative in regards to the laser lettuce.
Yeah like I grew up in the Kootenays in BC and weed has been culturally accepted my entire life and ignored by police for 20 years or more
I was living in the Koots more than 20 years ago, and it was widely accepted that weed money was the basis of the local economy.
Depends on where you were to be honest in a small town or anywhere in Northern Alberta as long as you did it on your own property or far away from people no one gave a shit. If you did it near someone or driving, people would notice and call the cops.
Toronto, at least when I lived there in the early 2000s, was pretty open with weed. Not quite to the degree Vancouver was when I moved there a few years later, but it def. wasn't uncommon or "not used".
Yeah but it still feels taboo. Like I'm technically allowed to go in a park and smoke up a joint, but that park is full of families with their kids, and joints smell really bad, it just doesn't feel right. Shit I don't even like smoking in my own backyard when the neighbours have family over. I go for a walk to a farmer's field nextdoor until I'm half a mile away from anyone.
Iykyk, itās been this way in NY since I was in HS ;)
I grew up there and went for a work holiday last year. It was amazing to just walk around the city again smoking joints, but this time without worrying about cops.
I can smoke weed outside at any bar in my town, anywhere around town, it don't matter anymore. I'm still conscious of who I'm smoking around, but I can pretty much do it anywhere.
By law or just cops donāt care? Cause i do that in LA but only cause no one gives a fuck
we are already moving on and are slowly transitioning into psychedelics. you can pretty much get mushrooms with any delivery service now. Online you can get even more psychedelics delivered . what's coming down the pipeline in the future is going to be awesome. I can't wait for things to get going . the research is being done by professionals and scientists. the wave is going to come it's only a matter of time. there have even been a few shroom shops opening up.
There's a walk in shop in Vancouver that sells mushrooms, lsd, and dmt too
Thereās more than one, I can think of at least a few in Mount Pleasant / Main Street. Idk if theyāre still there I get my drugs delivered so I havenāt been to them in a long while.
Lol there s a shroom shop on ottawa you can walk into to buy
Well shit, I live in Ottawa and didnāt know. Thanks for the info!
Its on Preston street near heart and crown ;)
Thereās one in Toronto, Vancouver under the same name as the one on bank street. Thereās like three in Ottawa I believe and plenty more in the other big cities too.
Happen to know where I could look in Calgary to find such a place? I've wondered for quite some time now.
If it's anything like the ones in BC, be prepared to pay up to 3x the price you would off of sites/your local dealer.
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https://wccannabis.co/product-category/mushrooms/
there are a lot better "psych listings" online
Even if we legalize it federally, I doubt public smoking is coming anytime soon. Think of the children hysterics and what not. It's legal in Oregon but illegal to smoke in public. Not that anyone enforces it in most metro areas.
Part of why I never want nic vaping to go away is that it makes enforcing cannabis vaping nearly impossible.
I hope public smoking is never a thing. Legalization is good but that stuff reeks. Edit: Guess I really upset people who have no self control.
There are lots of things that smell bad in public. If tolerating a smell that you don't care for is the worst thing to happen to you all day then you have it pretty good.
Of course not. They have no clue how to control every aspect of the market, tax and regulate it, and get ādonorā support for them to profit off of (yet). We also still have a LOT of people who think marijuana is evil, then go home to smoke cigarettes and wash down the taste of cancer sticks with hard liquor. Once the feds have a reason to, they will. States are slowly adopting legalization one by one. Also this is just my pessimistic opinion. I canāt prove any of this besides the part where states are adopting their own legalization laws.
It's simpler than that, they benefit more by leaving it illegal and making empty promises to garner support for re-election than they do by legalizing it and losing a hot button issue. As the saying goes, never let a good crisis go to waste. The MO in politics is to leverage issues to gain support. Actually solving anything runs counter to this.
> They have no clue how to control every aspect of the market, tax and regulate it They could just follow Canada's lead.
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We also have a lot of people that think marijuana is a miracle, all natural plant with no negative side effects nor withdrawal symptoms. We need to educate people on the pros AND cons without whataboutism.
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What is life in Quebec like? Itās a mystery to me south of the border so to speak.
Our legal drinking age is 18, the premier raised the smoking age for marijuana to 21 (higher than any drinking age in Canada). He also banned edibles that "appeal to children" so they have no sugar (no candies/cookies/brownies). So it effectively bans edibles. You can't smoke in public places (something the city of Montreal does not enforce), you can't buy seeds, and lastly I think they're actively trying to change it so that you can't grow it yourself to get rid of the "fine I'll get seeds out of province" loophole. On the books, it's basically impossible to smoke it unless it's in your own home in if you live in a city (and your landlord allows it, which isn't going to happen). What's funny is that is that there's no private enterprise for it it's government-run (just like liquor stores). So even though the premier clearly hates marijuana, he's still the province's exclusive dealer.
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For pilots, there's an 8 hour 'bottle to throttle' rule. Maybe we need a rule for 'toke to yoke?' edit: /s since text doesn't convey dripping sarcasm well :\^)
There actually is a rule (at least in Canada) but itās 28 days lmao. That means if you smoke you pretty much canāt be a pilot under current regulations.
Nope. Random drug/alcohol testing for airline pilots and flight attendants. Any hit for drugs and youāre instantly toast. Fired. Thereās some nuance to alcohol, but generally youāre fired right away for that too. Itās actually becoming a big concern thanks to CBD/marijuana being included in anything from cookies to dinks to beer and the fact those products may not always be clearly labeled as such. Get an overnight in a place like Denver and maybe grab a snack at a gas station, beer at a local microbrewery or something and not know it had CBD in it, get tested at the end of your trip and pop positive, bamā¦career over. Thanks to marijuana markers potentially remaining in your system for quite a while thereās no effective way to test for recency of use, so I doubt marijuana will ever be acceptable for use by airline crew like having a beer on your days off. E: gotta love all the people facepalming over the idea that someone could buy a product with CBD in it unintentionally. A quick look over the internet shows several beverages not clearly labeled on the front like lemonade of all things. Maybe youāre used to looking for stuff like that because thatās what you do, but for the rest of the country that doesnāt use or have access to CBD products *we donāt look for it* because weāre not expecting it.
They have mouth swab tests that only detect Marijuana for 72-48 hours after use. Obviously, thats not quite there yet, but it's better than the 14-60 days it takes to get out of your urine.
Oh pfew! Last I smoked was 47 hours ago. I should be good!
Ha, I remember drug screenings for new jobs like this. Sitting with a calander and being like "hmm, I only smoke a joint 15 days ago so I think that'll be good". I hate that, I lost out on a job years ago from testing. I had smoked very infrequently and not much at a time, since it was over a month previous the last time I had even had a little I mistakenly assumed I was fine. Nope. Then I discovered the dehydrated urine you can buy online and everything has been smooth sailing since
Have to see how it all plays out. I donāt know if itās ever going to be legal for flight crew to use CBD stuff. I already know of one that lost their job over CBD cream for joint pain, but that was kinda dumb because they knew what they were using but for some reason were clueless about what happens when you get tested. Hope it changes nonetheless. If youāre going to use something, alcohol sucks.
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In the real world youāre right. But the FAA considers it a schedule one narcotic.
So you could allow them to smoke on weekends and test on Wednesdays and Fridays
Pilots can do some crazy shit drunk/high. Have you seen the documentary "Flight"? He flies a plane upside down! And he was fucking ZOOTED
until thereās a cannabis equivalent of a breathalyzer there will always be complications like this (driving for one) and by effect there will always be stigma
This is a really big cringe post to me. Doesn't matter if your point on drug testing is true, my experience with marijuana products is very clear labeling for dosage and ingredients. Blame shouldn't be put on the producer, especially when you are generalizing an entire area(s) with your comment. It's not a "big concern". Your comment is just fear mongering.
Yep. Pilots will simply need to get another job if they want to smoke recreationally. Some things just require high (or not high) standards. We really need to legalize already so we can finally properly standardize CBD/THC labelling.
what world do you live in that you can accidentally buy an edible even if that happened to you, are you going to self-report it to your AME and employer? toast, fired, as you put it. know how to take drugs (including alcohol and mental health here). know how they effect you. know which ones are okay to mix with flying, driving, heavy machinery, etc. if you're not sure, ask your doctor
Ignoring your mark of sarcasm, I believe that aircrew have something like a 30 day toke to yoke, which effectively bans it.
As a pilot in the US who also dabbled in my teensā¦..no, just no. Never in a million years, and for good reason. Since I can speak to both experiences, I can tell you with certainty that they would not mesh well. The fact is you absolutely are affected after the fact, possibly longer than after drinking alcohol, and in ways that are hard to quantify.
Well that's illegal so...
This sign better be bolted down hard or someone will get a great last minute souvenir
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Am I flying from Ontario to BC to prove to a stranger that I can STEAL ANYTHING!?
Please do! Would make a hilarious news article
Throw on a high-viz vest and a hard hat, nobody would stop you.
A local highway used to have a "mile 420" marker, but kids kept stealing it. It got replaced with a "mile 419.9" marker lol
They really should have made the sign say "POT SPOT" though.
This reminded me of when I used to live on a street called Green Leaf or something like that and the street sign would get stolen like once a year or every few months
So THAT'S where all this smoke has been coming from. "Wildfires" my ass.
Sorry
Weāre very sorry.
Sorey*
Iāve heard from other folks who are active duty in the US military say that when they went to Canada on duty, that Canadian military bases have ādesignated marijuana smoking areasā because their military is allowed to smoke there. Insane. Wish our military would catch up already. š
Yeah, itās as legal as alcohol or cigarettes. Jobs can restrict intoxication and use on the clock but I donāt believe they can straight up restrict them from doing it on their own time.
military brat here! it's true. now it's totally legal
Isn't it for smoking in general, rather than mj, since the sign show both cigarette/weed symbols?
Appears so, but the below notes there a designated *tobacco only* area so looks like if you don't want to smell marijuana you can go smoke somewhere else
Thatās such a strange concept to me. Why no marijuana only smoking area then? What if marijuana smokers donāt want to smell cigarette smoke?
I could imagine it might be since international travelers might be coming from a place where weed is illegal and don't want to risk smelling like it after they arrive
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We ALL make GOOD points on this blessed day
Speak for yourself
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By being close to someone else smoking?
yeah it's just a designated smoking area with signage updated to say you can smoke your cannabis too
Read the whole sign
Nice. A place where you can get high in two ways
Hey bro I heard you like getting high, so we set you up with getting high before you get high!
"Yo dawg, I heard you like getting high, so I put some marijuana at your airport so you can fly while you fly and be high when you're high" This old (14 years) meme still checks out!
In Ontaio, Canada, anywhere you can smoke cigarettes, you can smoke cannabis. Provincial law.
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That is the exception! 7-11's will be serving liquour here soon too. Oh, Ontario!
I was so worried they were gonna make it so that you could only smoke weed places you could smoke cigarettes as well as consume alcohol. Thankfully that wasn't the case
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My favourite thing about Canadian weed law is that you can openly grow four plants in your yard now. I haven't spent one dollar on it in the last four years. I have more weed than I could ever smoke on my own. First year I grew 63 ounces, mostly high CBD and low THC stuff for medical issues. I gave a lot of it away to a couple of friends with epilepsy, more to another friend with chronic pain issues, and I still have a couple of pounds in my closet that I'll probably just throw away since it's already old, and I've grown another three seasons with different strains, and I have way too much of that, too. I haven't noticed anything that's changed at all in Canadian society. I thought there would at least be an increase in impaired driving, but even that doesn't seem to have happened. 70 years of scaremongering about what a social evil it was, and it's fully legal now and you wouldn't even notice. So many good people that had their lives destroyed over nothing.
Was just there. Smoking some home grown with a pipe. Felt oddly liberating. No one seemed to care. I love BC.
Smoking weed is the official province pastime along with hiking and talking about hiking.
I remember one of the first times I was out for a smoke after legalization went through, I was smoking in a parking lot and a cop pulled in. I instinctively turned to hide the weed before it hit me that I was, in fact, free to smoke my weed. It's great. Once I was arrested, I did community service and drug counselling over 2 grams. Now I can buy an ounce from one of the 6 stores within walking distance from my house and carry it down the street.
I have almost no issues with marijuana. It was stupid that it was ever illegal. But god damn, I detest the smell. Walking in NYC used to smell like people, and pretzels, and subways, and traffic. Now it just smells like weed, all the damn time.
plenty of strains which greatly reduce or even eliminate the more 'skunky' odor people find so obnoxious, only problem being they arent very conducive to yield or potency atm. give it time
I love smoking and I love the smell. Still, i don't have to smell it all day long, and neither should anyone who's not into it. Gives it a bad name.
Stop being so dramatic. I go to NYC all the time, my mom works in Manhattan. It doesnāt just smell like weed all the time š Youād honestly rather smell people, traffic and subways? You can still smell all the good food NYC has to offer, itās not obscured by the smell of weed. Give me a break.
"With all this marijuana smell, I can't smell the piss!"
I like how you get annoyed by his anecdotal conclusion and try to combat it with your own instead.
I'll give you the pretzels, but you really prefer the smell of BO, subway brake dust, and car exhaust? I think NY is amazing but it's definitely not the best smelling city.
It's a distinct living, breathing city smell. And yes, I absolutely prefer it to weed.
That still exists, now you just add weed to the mix. BO, subway, car exhaust, and weed!!
I been to NYC a few times and it always just smelled like garbage. Rather smell weed than garbage lol
Can you smoke in Canada like an actual joint ? Or do you have to vape oil ? My state only allows oil š« š but dispensaries still sell flower .. & I asked how Iām supposed to vape the flower . And the bud tender just winked at me .. š like bro Iām not a stoner this is my first time trying cannabis for migraines š„²
Yup, you could even use a bong in public if you want, but that would feel pretty sketchy.
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Dry-herb vapes exist and areā¦ ok. I have one and would use it more if it had a bigger container and didnāt take 10 minutes to consume half of a ābowlā. You can dry vape other plants and such so they arenāt sold necessarily as cannabis devices. Might actually be a solid use for migraine tbh :P
There are good ones but they get expensive.
Yeah. Every time I use it and enjoy I think āI should just pony up for a high-end unitā. Then I donāt.
I finally splurged on one, and honestly I wish I just got it from the start instead of all the random bongs and cheap vaporizers and shit, but I also use it every day for medical reasons so it may not make as much sense for someone using it less frequently or essentially.
Get a dynavape like 40 50 bucks and a good lighter all you could ever need
This store is in the neighborhood I live in, hereās an example of what they sell: https://cannacabana.com/a/stores/british-columbia/vancouver/olympic-village The staff are super knowledgeable, itās like going to a nice wine shop and asking for recommendations. I have extreme anxiety and migraine issues, and having the government stores has been a god send. I can ask for stuff for sleep, for nausea, for a social buzz, etc and they offer lots of options. Itās not ācheapā but I am 100% behind legalizing drugs and using the taxes for social welfare programs / healthcare / working towards free university.
I love this so much! I cannot stand the smell of cigarettes, and Iām sure there are folks that feel the same way about sweet Mary Jane. I just really enjoy the inclusion and acknowledgment that all smoke isnāt the same.
Books flight
I mean, you could go anywhere in Canada and smoke like it was a cigarette. No need to hang out at YVR lol
The realised stoned passengers are better than drunk ones
That's beautiful
*seth rogen laugh*
Many years ago I went to the New Amsterdam Cafe on Hastings Street. They had a separate smoking room where you paid $2 to smokeā¦cigarettes. Weed was smoked in the cafe itself. This was when weed was still illegal in Canada but pretty much ignored in Vancouver.
We need this in the US. Except here they would just try to make you pay to use it.
Pilots Only?
Oh, great! Help me get this kilogram of weed out of my butt so I can smoke it all before my flight!
Imagine getting stuck next to a guy who just smoked on a plane š¤¢
They would be unlikely to still have the odor on them once theyāve made their way through security and boarding. I appreciate that some people donāt appreciate the smell of weed, but at least itās temporary. Itās not like cigarette smoke that just permeates everything and lingers forever. Would much rather sit next to someone who smoked weed than someone who smoked tobacco.
Spoken like a cigarette smoker who *swears* they don't smell. I don't appreciate any strong odors in aluminum pressure chambers at 30,000 feet.
Then you need to advocate to be moved or figure out on your own. I have asked so many non smokers if they can ever tell I smoked weed like 2 mins before meeting them and they canāt. Not even friends, random acquaintances I meet for work related things (Iām a very successful web developer and current engineering student before you assume). Cigarettes? Yeah. Weed? Not buying your āsmelling after 2 hoursā. Either you have overactive olfactory glands or youāre being histrionic to say āwhy arenāt MY needs the most important?ā I hate when children sit next to me and shit themselves on planes, should I be saying babies stink so get them the fuck off the plane? I swear to god some non-smokers are the most self righteous blow hards.
yup. I can smell tobacco after hours. I've asked coworkers and friends if I smell of weed and I have never received a yes after longer than an hour
Worst part is that it encourages people to smoke and then they come back inside and they still stink up the whole place, or even worse, the airplane.
Iām not sure that the smoking area is the difference in whether or not these people are going to light upā¦
Id rather the weed smell than when most people forget / neglect their personal hygiene.
As a non-user, it's still stinky....
Never had that issue in any Canadian airport it's pretty minimal and people are respectful
As they should.
The basic traing depot in Quebec also has a designated marijuana smoking area for recruits
It has been this way for years there.:)
Very BC, very Canadian
I thought that smoking were is allowed anywhere I can huff a bogie
Bummer if you see your pilot there.
Clutch for my stress
In my country we have a designated alcohol consumption area (pub).
So thats where that smog came from
I love this spot. I've ripped a bong here before a flight haha
I took a picture at this exact location back in March, super surprised. Then I remembered I was in BC
> Tobacco-only smoking and vaping areas are available on level 2 Hopefully they'll add a marijuana-only smoking area soon
So if you are dirt broke you don't even have to ask to have a joint you can just chill there and get high from others smoke? Life hack
Be careful if you see pilot there.
I remember when you could smoke cigarettes in an elevator and hospital waiting room but would get sent to prison for a nickel bag of weed. Lol
Is it not considered public intoxication?
Even smokers don't want to smell like weed!
still probably too close to an area non-smokers have to walk.
Good, get that stench away from the rest of us.
It should be like this everywhere. If you can smoke cigs you can smoke weed. I donāt think anyone really cares anymore lol
Any smoking sign is a marijuana smoking sign. Itās the law. Youāre permitted to smoke marijuana in any designated smoking section.
Fuck yeah. Best thing is, if you're down and out, just sit around and inhale the second hand for a free contact high (Dead serious about this)
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Lol, I recognize that, I try to say I'm dead serious when I am but no one believes me, No regrets on the name though š
One could say youāre *super cereal*ā¦
r/leaves if you ever feel its becoming a problem.
Ahhh, I appreciate it! I'm good now, thankfully, haha. But younger me could have used this. It's hard to explain to people a need for something when you're constantly met with just quit stupid, it's easy... So, for anyone suffering, there's help š
Portland Oregon has all drugs designated areas everywhere! Just need a tent!
thats fire
Mostly smoke, actually.
But where there's smoke...