Weed Is Legal!
Wait, wait, wait. Before you get too excited, keep reading.
Yes, you are allowed to enjoy marijuana in its dry form (smoke, vape, etc) in your own home.
However, at the time of writing this article (March 29, 2019), you cannot legally purchase any edibles, oils or topical cannabis products. According to the Government of Canada’s website, they will have their structure for legally purchasing these items in place by October 17, 2019.
This screenshot is from the Government’s website:
This does not stop online mail order companies from selling these products, but before you buy, make sure you check your provincial laws and bylaws.
The federal law, as outlined in the Cannabis Act, states that you can legally purchase and possess up to 30 grams in public (per legally aged adult).
“I’m Just Gonna Grow a Ton and Never Run Out”
Nope.
The Cannabis Act also covers the growing of cannabis plants. Each residence, no matter how many people live there, can only grow up to 4 plants.
For anyone that has grown before, you know this basically means harvesting 3 plants and 1 mother, because germinating 4 seeds to find out that 3 of them are male, and then you have one plant outgrowing the rest…sucks.
Also, paying for someone else’s clones really isn’t all that fun either.
So, How Do You Grow More Than 4?
That is quite simple. In most provinces, the government dispensaries were severely under-supplied as soon as they opened their doors. Imagine that, the government not knowing what they are doing…
So, just about anyone can grow for them and sell them dry marijuana, or run a nursery to grow and sell licensed clones and seeds.
Before you can do this, you need to apply for an account through Health Canada and have a secure location (you cannot get a licence to grow in your home). You will need to hire security, and probably some other helpers, and they all need to have accounts with Health Canada and be included on the licence. This is all to ensure proper chain of distribution, and that none of the product ends up in the hands of illegal sellers or children.
For updated changes to the Cannabis Act and information on legally growing cannabis for sale, click here for the Government of Canada’s “what you should know” page.
I absolutely love what I read in this insightful article because it is full of great information. This is fascinating and interesting to me. This article explains the Canadian legalization of weed and amount of weed you are permitted to grow. In as much as its stated in this article, I will rather make enough plant and tag to every adult living with me and make money from it.
Be careful, it is only 4 plants per household, and it is not legal to sell it to anyone, whether or not you live with them.
Hey there
I accidentally come across your article about Canada Marijuana Legalizatio as I was searching for some information about ’drugs’ for a research paper. Your article is very informative and useful I really liked the way you put the evidence together.
I gathered that there is a Cannabis Act, which allows adults to purchase and possess up to 30 grams. Fascinating!
Thanks again for the link to the Act.
Best wishes.
They can also grow and keep up to 30 grams and give 30 grams to each of their friends (selling to another person is lot legal).
I must say that this article is very helpful and informative. It is great that it is allowed to grow marijuana in Canada as I can say my cousins to grow it until I go there. It is a great plant that can greatly help in the health and that is the reason why I would use it. I will bookmark this post and spread it.
Thank you very much!
Thanks for sharing this article on Canada marijuana legalization. This article is brief and precise and loaded with vital information for the public to know the stand of Government on the use and planting of marijuana. It is really good that government place some restrictions and conditions on buying and planting of Marijuana. Because if not some citizens may go a wire all in the name of Marijuana has been legalized. Thanks for sharing this article.
There is going to be people that overreact and over extend themselves no matter the topic.
I went to a karaoke night at a local bar recently. A bouncer was outside near the smoking area, and told a man to put out his joint that he was smoking (it is not legal to smoke in public, smoking area or otherwise). The man refused, came back in and started singing a song. The bouncer told the host to turn the music off, because the man was being asked to leave.
He made a huge scene in front of everyone, yelling how it is legal now, and he was doing something that was legal.
He was making it look like he was right and being treated unfairly.
It is not legal to smoke in public, so the bar would be liable for legal action if they allowed someone to smoke it on their property. It wasn’t wrong for them to make him leave, and it was smart to do, legally and in respect to their business in general.
I believe my friends knows nothing about this ad they reside in Canada. They are addicts to Marijuana, this post is particularly for theme, thanks for this post its very informative i have learnt a new thing today, I will have to let them see this. Knowing how to grow them to avoid breaking the law is very important
I don’t believe you can be addicted to marijuana chemically. Yes, you can overuse it in an attempt to escape your reality, like you can with just about anything that distracts you.
In truth, they could have much more destructive escape methods (gambling, hard drugs, alcohol, sex, etc).
I think (even though I don’t personally use it anymore), it is a somewhat healthy alternative to people that will use something to escape regardless.
Thanks for writing this article on things to know about the legalize marijuana weed.i must commend you for a job well done for taking your time to do your findings and research on things to know about this legalization of weed.i really find this article helpful because am already having it in mind to grow weeds any moment from now. And am sure many people are trying to do so too
Make sure you bookmark this site. I will be writing tutorials on different methods, and giving reviews of different growing products, seeds, and other cannabis products.
Firstly I would like to appreciate you for bringing this information to the people. For me I think the government will still be putting out other rules and guidelines as touching the growing marijuana in your home and also selling because making this legal already gives people room to abuse marijuana and eventually get too greedy, that’s why the government still has alot of role to play in making sure there is strict compliance to rules and regulations.
There are rules already in place for this. In order to legally grow for sale to dispensaries, you have to apply for an account with a federal tracking program, and comply with lots of rules for your product to be certified and accepted. Selling illegally will be increasingly punished (like tobacco), mostly because they will be losing tax dollars.
Before then, I predict they will be somewhat lax as they work out the kinks in their legal dispensaries, to keep people using the product while they figure out how to run it smoothly.
I know the legalization of marijuana by the Canadian government has its pros, like the screen shot stated, it will help to reduce the amount of funds amassed by criminals through illegal sales of the weed.
It might have other pros, but let’s look at the cons:
Wouldn’t it result in increased abuse of the weed? Since, now it’s allowed, won’t people that avoided it when it was illegal be encouraged to start taking it now? These are a few of my concerns.
Probably a little, but not as much as you would think. People aren’t as dumb as they often appear. We are in an age where, even if it sounds like whining and complaining most of the time, people are becoming aware of the things they consume and the things they do to their bodies. Smoking cigarettes is declining quite steadily, and in truth, if someone switches out tobacco for marijuana, at least they are one step in the right direction.
The thing is, those that WOULD abuse it would do so whether or not it was legal.
Also, Canada has placed some pretty strict rules on the advertising of marijuana to repel any glorification. The models and actors aren’t even allowed to smile or look like it helped their mood.
I’m glad for the questions, and thank you for reading.
I’m going to preface this comment by saying that I am not a weed smoker (and I live in the United States, in a state where it’s still illegal). I’ll also say that I have tried it in my younger days and just never liked it as it 1) makes me deeply stupid, like giggly fits you can’t stop stupid, and 2) when it wears off, my anxiety gets 10x worse than before smoking.
That said, I do believe it should be legal, definitely. Mine is a personal choice, not a judgmental one. I’d rather deal with a chronic weed smoker (your average pothead) than an alcoholic or obnoxious drunk any day. So go Canada! The US will hopefully follow suit.
Pot smokers rarely (as in never) turn violent and beat their wives, kids, or dog. They do have memory issues and a lack of motivation issues for heavy smokers, and any smoke inhalation isn’t exactly healthy, and there are some toxicity problems showing up in hospitals in Colorado now that it’s legal, so it IS possible to ‘overdose’, but I have yet to read of it being fatal ever. It’s non-addictive to most people, and addiction that I’ve heard is mostly mental, like someone can be addicted to gambling or video games or exercise. But ANY substance on the planet can be harmful to a few people in high doses. It’s therefore relatively safe and a ton safer than alcohol. Why this hasn’t been legalized forever ago, I don’t know. It’s crazy!
It also has a ton of medical benefits, obviously. So, despite my non-smoking preference, I am happy Canada legalized it.
I’m glad to have a non-smoker’s point of view on the subject, and (probably surprisingly) I am also one of those that don’t partake. I used to be, and I used to grow (yes, before it was legal), and I got very good at both (haha).
Therefore, I see an opportunity to pass on some knowledge, even if I no longer enjoy the particular benefits that most people are looking for when reading about this topic.
I will be posting a lot more on growing from this point on, I just wanted to get a few important things that I think people should know out of the way before doing so.
Once again, thanks for reading and thanks for the respectful non-smoker’s insight.
You’re very welcome! Btw, I wasn’t aware that weed had plants with two sexes. I know plants do this, but it’s been years since my biology classes, but I didn’t know the whole plant was male or female. I’m now picturing the whole bees carry pollen from the male flowers and land on a female flower, boom, fertilization. But I can’t remember all of my botony lessons, so this was an interesting read.:)
The issue with cannabis, in regards to fertilization, is that if you have males in your grow area, they must be destroyed immediately. Males have an extremely low amount of CBD and THC (which is what most people are looking for in marijuana), and if they fertilize your female plants, the amounts of both in those females drop to about half.
There is also the problem of hermaphroditism. If the plants don’t have near perfect darkness in their flowering cycle, they can be light stressed into turning hermaphrodite, which poses both problems at once: possible fertilization of your surrounding females, and severely depleted usefulness of the plants that turned.
Some growers will purposely light stress some plants, and self fertilize. The resulting seeds have a much higher probability of being female initially, but also pose a considerably higher risk of also turning hermaphrodite. There are better ways to improve your chances of females, that don’t weaken the genetics of your strain.
The legalization of cannabis is not a sudden decision in Canada. The authorities has taken careful steps on the legal and health issues involved. In my opinion the cannabis legalization and the associated laws are well though of , the medical world has proven that the cannabis oil is of numerous benefits.
I would say the cannabis act and information should be made public.
The government not knowing what they are doing, that cracks me up! I think it’s like that in every country, they have to show authority in some way to control us. I’m thinking of growing some cannabis plants of my own, maybe start with 4 to be on the safe side but out of curiosity, do I have to apply in order to grow, or can I simply grow without going through all those tedious applications?
The applications are only if you intend to legally sell to dispensaries. You can grow up to 4 plants per household without asking anyone.
I appreciate this. It is a good new that Canadian government sees Marijuana to be legal, unlike their U.S. counterparts where it is consider illegal at the federal level, however in some states, the medicinal marijuana (CBD) is legal. where you wrote ” imagine that the government not knowing what they are doing” got me laughing. I appreciate the wisdom you used to figure out how one can grow more than 4 plants required by law.
Great post and good info.
Now, these law makes a lot of sense and logic, and is much better than the Belgian ones.
I will give you the example: we can have 3 grams with us, but neither can use or give it to somebody. Logic, not at all. I think Canada is one of the most open countries in terms of cannabis, don’t you think so? I hope more and more countries allow it, since this is the only one that isn’t affected with agression and so.
Thanks for this post, I enjoyed it!
I think the only reason for the 30 gram cap at all is to deter selling to other people (so they get their taxes).
I think global (or close to) legalization is going to happen in the future. Cigarettes, on the other hand, should be legalized. I know tobacco companies and cancer research would never allow it, and would bribe just about everyone to keep their pay day, but it SHOULD happen.
The Cannabis Act in Canada looked like a mystery from afar.
However, a closer look had revealed the intention of her government; basically, as a means of regulatory control – in terms of its plantation, distribution, among others.
There is virtually no country with temperate climate where cannabis are not grown. Most are done illegally though. This step taken by the Canadian government will surely stir controversies in the global space. It will generate debate which would be welcomed in different perspectives across personalities and nations. There exist certain countries where Cannabis is not a plant with economic importance.
Even in those countries, they need to realize that hemp can be used for more than just it’s effects on the human body. The fibers can be harvested and made into cloth and paper, and much more efficiently than using trees.
I believe if the world legalized this plant, which is undoubtedly more harmless than 95% of the legal “drugs” in the world, there would be a huge drop in global crime (as you alluded to). If there is no market for cross-border deals, criminals will need to find other methods of making money. This also frees up authorities to focus on truly harmful alternatives, like cocaine and methamphetamine.
Hi,
I have read your article and found out more about Canada’s marijuana legation. I did not know anything about it before. After reading your article, I realized that the seeds of marijuana are legal in Canada and anyone can sell 30 grams of dry marijuana there. I heard that there are different uses of marijuana. So, I have more interest in learning about it. Thank you very much for writing this article.
Only “licensed” seeds are legal for purchase (meaning government controlled).
Be sure to bookmark this site, as I will be posting much more information on every aspect of marijuana use and cultivation.