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chocoloco on 03 March 2011
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Joelcool7 said:
chocoloco said:
sapphi_snake said:
chocoloco said:
StokedUp said:

Move to Europe, and smoke at your own will! :)

Actually, in the US the severity of laws vary greatly by state with the Western half of the nation having very minor laws with punishments only equivalent to a traffic ticket while many Eastern and Southern states will throw a person into jail for even small amounts of possesion. Because the US lets our states regulate our laws relatively freely  people live under very different rules depending on where they reside.

Too confusing. More centralisation!!!

I do not know if you are serious, but America is to big of a country for that to work out well. I bet you my state is almost as big as your country. :P

Canada is way bigger then the US yet we opperate with federal laws. If drinking and driving is illegal in one province it is in all. The Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, and I believe it would be classified under section 1 dictates across Canada smoking weed is illegal. In the same way many other laws are enforced across Canada in federal law.

Their are a few provincial laws, but the federal laws cover most of everything and are enforced nation wide. Unlike the US which relies heavily on state law. Canada is far more unified then the US legally. Now that being said getting caught with weed in Canada (Small amounts) usually results in a slap on the wrist not heavy action.

we are going in a topic direction that I do not wish to discuss, but I can tell you that Americans are taught from an early age about why we seperate federal and state so heavily to avoid the tyranny we fought to free ourselves against. My country chose to fight for freedom yours did not so there is little wonder that even Canada and the US have very different viewpoints on how  power of legislation should be distributed. 

If you wish to discuss this issue further make a thread about it or write me on my wall because this is a thread about Marijuana.