Toronto police to Canadians: stop snitching on your neighbors about marijuana

[Scurrilous]

Canada’s marijuana legalization law took effect on Wednesday — and the Toronto police force wants people to stop snitching.

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"The Toronto Police Service has a message for Canadians: Please stop narcing on your neighbors about marijuana.

With the official start of marijuana legalization in Canada on Wednesday, and retail stores opening across the country (although not in Ontario until April), the Toronto police force started a public awareness campaign to inform people that they should no longer snitch on their neighbors about marijuana use."

Link to tweet

"The tweets are funny, but they also speak to the huge change that Canada has brought on. Marijuana has been illegal in Canada for generations. This has shaped people’s views in all sorts of ways, up to enabling neighbors to snitch on each other over cannabis use. Officials across Canada now have to work to change not just the laws, but also the social norms and rules at work here."

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/17/17989448/canada-marijuana-legalization-toronto-police-911

[PufPuf23]

1. I did not realize until seeing this about legal pot smoking in Canada.

"Cannabis is no longer illegal on October 17, 2018. Consumption is allowed anywhere cigarette smoking is allowed except in a motor vehicle."

What a sweeping change.

What the USA needs is federal legalization so pot sales can involve banks.

Would not like the GOP to take the initiative and move for federal legalization.

We should be aggressive about federal pot legalization now. To state so would help in the ever soon elections.

[Scurrilous]

4. John Oliver did a good segment on this:

[Cha]

6. Thanks! Will watch. :)

[Scurrilous]

8. ...

[Cha]

9. LOL@Catnip for people.

"Please update your stereo types about the Univ of Mississippi"..

Very informative! I don't even use pot anymore but I like to stay informed on it.

@ talking about carrier pigeons eating the weed and giggling about owls seeming like they wear glasses but no..

A whole slew of Catch 22s with State and Federal Laws on MJ.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

2. Canada is cool.

And the people there are delightful and kind. We ae lucky they are our neighbors to the North.
Nice to see law enforcement policy change to adapt to Canadian peoples voice at the ballot box.

[malaise]

3. My late cousin was married to a fabulous progressive Canadian lady

Her brother grew ganja on the family farm for decades. I wish they were all alive for this week.
Have you seen the lines for folks buying ganja in Canada today? They make the iPhone lines look short.

[Scurrilous]

7. My great-grandfather Peter (nee Pierre) emigrated to the US from Canada many years ago.

Damn him!

[Cha]

5. Canada! Another brilliant reason to move there

if one is thinking about it.. 'cause of you know what!

Mahalo, Scurrilous.. I love Canada and its Peeps Anyway.

[roamer65]

10. Time for Michigan secession and joining the Canadian confederation.

We are more like Canada than states like Alabama or Texas.

https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/is-it-time-for-canada-to-annex-blue-america/