Marijuana possession: 15 grams, $100 fine

The Ottawa Citizen (Canada) ^ | May 13, 2003 | Janice Tibbetts

[unspun]

More reasonable than US federal policy?

Yep

[MrLeRoy]

Pinko! Libertine!

[unspun]

Thank you. You're so conciliatory.

[Prodigal Son]

Drunks are definitely more dangerous in many, many ways than potsmokers.

Aye, I'll go along with that. What I was referring to is the 'self discipline to be successful' part.

[StringTheory]

" "The fine would be handed to people caught with less than 15 grams of marijuana.

People caught with more than 15 grams would still be subject to a criminal record that carries a maximum penalty of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine." "

Wow, I sure wouldn't want to be caught with 15.1 grams of marijuana.

[tacticalogic]

"The estimated lethal human dose of intravenous Marinol is 30 mg/kg (2100 mg/70 kg). Using this estimation of lethal dose, the equivalent inhaled THC would represent the smoking of 240 cannabis cigarettes with total systemic absorption of the average 8.8 mg of THC in each cigarette.

Since absorption is much less than 100 percent, the amount of smoked marijuana required to reach lethality is on the order of one to two thousand cigarettes.

The physical impossibility of a fatal overdose using smoked cannabis is obvious."

Sometimes what people don't tell you tells you more than what they do tell you.

[ez]

Is that what I asked?

I have no idea what you asked. My point was that this new Canadian "loose marijuana policy" is in line with my knowledge of NYS law. Therefore, it doesn't seem that loose of a policy to me.

[American in Israel]

Guess what, I get out much. -grin-

[StringTheory]

Yes, you are absolutely correct, it is impossible to overdose on marijuana.

The real question from that fact leads a lot of us to ask... Why are we aresting over 700,000 american, every year, wasting billions of tax payer dollars, stoping people from smoking this plant. And the current laws make it easier for our children to obtain it!

[Wolfie]

On the whole, the new policy is a loss for Canadian marijuana smokers. They're better off now then they will be under the new law.

[tacticalogic]

The real question from that fact leads a lot of us to ask... Why are we aresting over 700,000 american, every year, wasting billions of tax payer dollars, stoping people from smoking this plant. And the current laws make it easier for our children to obtain it!

Add to that the money and LEO resources we expend on eradication efforts trying to wipe out acres of feral ditchweed hemp that grows back every year, and that nobody would smoke anyway.

On a different note, they keep harping about how the cultivated marijuana is so much more potent than it used to be, but it's laws like this that have provided the incentive for people to try and produce exactly that result.

[RussianConservative]

Point was not whether you will od on pot, point was it IS a toxin like alcohol and others. Just a very mild toxin. Is that so hard to own up to?

[tacticalogic]

Point was not whether you will od on pot, point was it IS a toxin like alcohol and others. Just a very mild toxin. Is that so hard to own up to?

I'll grant that, in absolute terms, it is a toxin, like alcohol and others. The fact that it is impossible to od on makes it very much unlike alcohol and others.

[MrLeRoy]

Is that what I asked?

I have no idea what you asked.

Sorry, I thought your post was a reply to my preceding post. My mistake.