For over 5 years, Oh Cannabis Newz and Viewz has provided a grassroots perspective of the legalization movement from here in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It's one of those very rare stories that actually ends well. We won the fight! A lot of fine tuning is still needed. However, legalization has taken root on the home front. It's now spreading and growing around the world.
So much so, that I can't keep up with all the news links any longer. It's time to change how I cover the scene. I still plan to write about the high life. I just won't be posting the latest links in a news compendium here on my blog site anymore. They're on Oh Cannabis -The Twitter Edition! instead:
You'll find lots of links to our weed lifestyle, music and art, with plenty of laughs along the way. I cover the unfinished business of legalization in Canada and around the world too.
Medical cannabis? The Reefer Madness stigma? Topicals? CBD's? Toking lounges? The government and corporate monopolies? Safety measures? Legal pardons? Criminal records? Equity issues? Or the policing of Prohibition 2.0?
Please follow Oh Cannabis -The Twitter Edition for way, way more links than I could ever possibly post on my site! Plus keep checking here for more special features too!
MY BLOGSITE ARCHIVES
My original Oh Cannabis Newz y Viewz blogs are available in the Blogsite Archive, at the top left of your screen.
They document the Canadian legalization process from Prime Minister Trudeau's 2015 election promise, through Legalization Day, October 18, 2018. Then how it was implemented, for better or worse, over the next three years.
Hopefully, my primary news links and first hand insights will provide a useful historical record of our legalization movement for future reference, in the daze ahead!
A POT WINDFALL
Was it all worthwhile? Being an activist is risky. It means standing up for your rights and beliefs. Sometimes it works out, other times not, but still we do it because it is the right thing to do. Here are some of the many gains we've made in fighting for our cannabis rights:
We're free from the fear and paranoia of getting busted by the cops, or ripped off by some creep. Buying weed could be dangerous, back when I started toking in the early 1970's. Getting arrested meant jail time and a criminal record, a huge problem at home, school or work. Goodbye to all that anxiety and stress!
My stash is an embarrassment of riches. There are more strains and extracts than I can smoke. More infused products than I can possibly eat or drink. Good bye to dry spells too!
The rich bounty of edibles is great for self medicating or just having fun. I've come to often prefer the cleaner, convenient and more healthier high!
Cannabis is perfect for hibernating indoors during the winter. Also for relaxing outdoors in summer at the lake. Almost everyone use to drink but me. Drinkers argue and fight. The conversation sucks. Legalization means I'm a lonesome toker no more!
We can grow our own weed; up to 4 plants per person, even more with a medical license. Cultivation once meant serious jail time. They'd throw away the keys. Now it's just a cheaper, homegrown alternative to buying weed.
Legal dispensaries are everywhere. The underground market too. I get oils, tinctures and sprays from the first. Cheaper, more potent boo from the latter! The competition is driving prices down and the THC count up. While quality and selection just keep getting better and better. It's a huge pot windfall for consumers. We are the winners for a change!
Perhaps there's hope yet for a more progressive approach to legalization. Our long time activist-entrepreneurs have some real skin in the game. They're now becoming consultants. Opening very cool shops. Talking real sensi on the corporate boards and even helping run the Ontario Cannabis Store too. Move over Norbert the Narc and you other dazed and confused Johnny Come Lately's! Enough of your BS, the real pros are here!
What a long strange trip it's been! I am truly honoured to have met and fought alongside so many of the great's in our struggle. I'm so glad that I could help out, even if in small part, by participating and reporting on the legalization scene.
After all is said and done, what's best of all, is that weed's now legal in Canada. I am just happy that I can self medicate the aches and pains of my senior years without hassle, at peace with our favourite weed.
Pax!
David C
LINKS
New Directions in Blogging: Here's where I am at with these changes @ HERE!
A Stoners Guide To Oh Cannabs Newz y Viewz: Much more detailed notes @ HERE!
On My Blogsite Archives: Find links from "as it happened" in my coverage of the Karma Cup, the Project Claudia and Gator dispensary busts, Marc and Jodie Emery and the Cannabis Culture 5 Toronto Court dates, Green Market Toronto, Grandmasta P's Nugswap, and the High Society Supper Club, Toronto Vapour Lounges and Shops, Tyendinaga etc. etc. etc. @ THERE!
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