Regardless of whether you’re for or against making cannabis legal in Canada, it’s going to happen on Oct. 17. As it stands, the legislation sensibly treats the smoking of cannabis like tobacco by aligning consumption of pot with the Smoke-Free Ontario Act. After all, the idea is to make legal pot shops accessible so users don’t turn to the black market. One is allowing municipalities to decide whether they can ban legal cannabis stores within their borders entirely. That would have made it very difficult to set up legal pot shops in some areas.

Source: thestar October 01, 2018 10:07 UTC