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Shortly after noon, the House of Commons introduced a bill, with a quick press meeting to go over the detail of the bill. The full reading of the bill will take place at 1 pm here. Below are the quick details:
- Adults are allowed to possess and share no more than 30 gram of cannabis with adults
- Kids are not allowed to posses cannabis
- Kids that do possess small amounts of cannabis will not receive criminal charges.
- Cannabis will be sold through stores and can be produced at home in limited quantities
- Cannabis can not be sold, mixed with other drugs like tobacco, caffeine, alcohol, etc
- This bill does not specify the sales environment, this lets the provinces regulate how they would like it sold.
- This does not prevent Ontario from having Cannabis sales in the LCBO!
- There will be restrictions on adverting cannabis & it’s associated products similar to tobacco
- No targeting to kids
- Edibles will be allowed once proper laws are in place
- No false or misleading advertising
- All producers will need a federal license
- There will be new enforcement groups to police the new cannabis laws
- Possession for illegal sales $200 fine
- Large illegal sales or sales to youth, 14 years in jail
- There will be a serious step up in drug impaired driving crackdowns
- 3 types of offences
- Summary conviction, small fine (2-5 nanogram /mL of Blood, max $1,000 no driving 1 yr)
- Drugs alone >5 nanogram /mL of Blood
- Drugs & alcohol mix ( 2.5nano/mL 50ml alcohol/100mL)
- 1st offence min $1,000 1 day suspension
- 2nd offence 30 day suspension
- 3rd time 120 day suspension
- This could happen for smelling like weed, having red eyes, or speech abnormalities.
