Some facts about Canadian grass or cannabis or weed or pot or marijuana sometimes anglicized as MaryJane.
1. The black market price was a little less than $7 per gm. Now the Toronto official prices vary with the quality but at an average of $11. 2. People do not mind the higher price since it is for licensed product. 3. You can get a pack of 5 pre-rolled cigs that contain 3.4gms of weed. One pre-rolled usually contains 0.7gm of pot. 4. Unlike liquor, there is no method for cops to know how much pot you have consumed or any at all if they stop you while behind the wheel. This deficiency will I am sure, soon be rectified as accidents increase. 5. The G.O.A. Toronto has not decided whether to allow grass at their events (Gilbert of Ithaca N.Y.) can happily use this interval). Once they decide on it, they will probably sell it too. Also not known is whether the price of their ticket will include some pre-rolled or whether they will place a few pots at the bar and allow you to pick your own weed to roll yourself. 5. Looks to me Rizla rolling paper once popular in Portuguese Goa will now become popular again, this time with pot instead of Black Lion tobacco inside. 6. Unfortunately you can only smoke pot where you can smoke cigarettes (outside public buildings, 10 feet away from the entrances, or in your own home). I don’t know why, since second hand smoke from pot makes you happy, not endangers you like tobacco does. 7. You cannot take pot across the Canadian border since their Govt has far less tolerance to it than we do. Canada will benefit from increased tourism from the south. 8. Sales of analgesics, pain-killers, opioids, alcohol, Qat in the Somali community, anti-depressants and use of therapy dogs will take a hit since pot can do what they do more effectively and at lesser cost. 9. All visitors to Canada will be greeted with pot’s sweetish smell that many may not be able to identify until they seek its pleasure. 10. Anyone investing in pot stocks may be disappointed since most homes have a backyard where a few plants are bound to miraculously sprout. Though this is not legal, how many homeowners can the police arrest? Roland Francis Toronto.
