{"id":179002,"date":"2018-06-20T20:53:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T01:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/20\/canada-to-become-major-importer-of-fig-newtons\/"},"modified":"2018-06-20T20:53:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T01:53:00","slug":"canada-to-become-major-importer-of-fig-newtons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/20\/canada-to-become-major-importer-of-fig-newtons\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada to Become Major Importer of Fig Newtons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because they have just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/jun\/20\/canada-legalises-cannabis-senate-vote\">legalized recreational marijuana use nationwide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You might also consider investing in ice cream sammiches: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/canada\">Canada<\/a> is to become the second country in the world to fully legalise marijuana, after the senate approved legislation paving the way for recreational cannabis to be legally bought and sold within the next two or three months. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve just witnessed a very historic vote that ends 90 years of prohibition,\u201d senator Tony Dean told reporters on Tuesday after the vote to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parl.ca\/LegisInfo\/BillDetails.aspx?billId=8886269\">the Cannabis Act<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt ends 90 years of needless criminalisation, it ends a prohibition model that inhibited and discouraged public health and community health in favour of just-say-no approaches that simply failed young people miserably.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The federal government has said it would give provinces and territories \u2013 which are responsible for deciding how recreational cannabis will be distributed and sold \u2013 eight to 12 weeks after the legislation is passed to get ready for sales, but the exact date that sales begin will be set by the federal government.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, Canada! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because they have just legalized recreational marijuana use nationwide. You might also consider investing in ice cream sammiches: Canada is to become the second country in the world to fully legalise marijuana, after the senate approved legislation paving the way for recreational cannabis to be legally bought and sold within the next two or three &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[475,517,449,584],"class_list":["post-179002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-canada","tag-drugs","tag-legislation","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}