What were the penalties prior to legalization making concentrates?
It’s because they don’t want people blowing up their apartments which is fair.
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“Tickets for small amounts” because that’s what applies to me.
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Slap on the wrist.
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Can you show that? I’m not saying I don’t trust you, but I’d rather not just take someone’s word for it.
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Based on my understanding these numbers are correct.
We didn’t have a law against making them until they made it legal. Most cannabis was always a slap here. Not anymore
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gov’t does not like competition…
Sounds like there’s been pretty stiff penalties in Canada for awhile bud.
While recreational use of cannabis in the Western hemisphere had been growing since the 1800s, it remained almost unheard of in Canada until the 1930s, and it was not until the 1960s that cannabis surged in popularity as a drug. Initially in the 1960s the drug was popular among middle-class college students, only later expanding to other demographics.[24] The maximum penalty for possession of small quantities was six months in prison and a $1,000 fine for a first offence.[25] Convictions for cannabis skyrocketed, from 25 convictions between 1930 and 1946, to 20 cases in 1962, to 2,300 cases in 1968, to 12,000 in 1972.[26] The Narcotics Control Act of 1961 increased maximum penalties to 14 years to life imprisonment.[27]
Nah, I was caught with a warehouse full of weed 10 years ago and didn’t even pay a fine. I did 6 months community service as a first time offender. If I was caught today I would be in jail with massive amounts to pay in tax evaision.
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Well here’s the thing. In Canada seeds are now illegal if you have over a certain amount in public. I seed equals one dried gram. Legally you can have 30 grams or 30 seeds on you when in public. They have already started to regulate how many seeds you can have here. Shipping more than 30 seeds is illegal weather hemp or not.
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Imagine having a bag of 1000 beans on you and getting caught with those and that according to the government is that same as having a couple pounds of bud on you…. Makes you wonder what’s coming
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If I had to guess, there’s probably more to the story. Canada had stiff penalties on the books for decades.
Honesty bro, cannabis was a laughed at offense here. Growing, smoking all of it. Pretty laid back but not anymore.
I don’t know many people that were ever charged with anything and def never went to jail. Zero people, that is not how it is anymore, last few years have be see a few people popped and is the reason I got way out… It was known to be a waste of crown resources to go after cannabis
If you had 30g of seeded bud in public 
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Basically a death sentence and it just goes to show you how stupid the laws are
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I used to go up to Sherbrooke in Quebec during the summertime in the late 90s they always had a different music venue every weekend and closed down the Main Street so clubs/bars could roll out their mobile bars and it was all pedestrian. I remember going down a hill towards the river there were people from all over down by the river smokin out. They were from Germany Norway the US and other parts of the world.all Tonkin up. You could however look up towards the street there was a RCMP substation on top of the hill you could look in t,he window while taking a big ‘ol toke and see cops milling around inside . They did give 2 shits about people getting high.
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Just to offer up an example in 2004 a massive brewery was bought buy a cannabis black market production company in Barrie Ontario Canada… It was busted and is the largest ever in the history of Canadian busts regarding cannabis. 30,000 plants and millions of dollars. The guy who owned it got 7 years at the time. If this was now he would be facing many more penalties and much more time.
Do you have a link to an article?
I don’t see a problem with that. He was doing something he shouldn’t have been doing. There’s a big difference between growing your own and growing to sell. If you want to make money through cannabis, and there is a legal avenue, you need to take that route. Otherwise get a damn job.
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