Editor’s note: Oregon has quietly become yet another American state to legalize marijuana use. If the discussion below is not underway in the Canadian government now, it will be very soon, as our politicians grapple with the challenge to create our laws and standards for the legal use of the intoxicant for the first time since it was criminalized in Canada in 1923.
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Police said the bikers involved in the shootout in Waco Texas last week were criminal gangs involved in selling drugs such as cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamines. Marijuana is the cash crop. Marijuana also got the Mexican drug cartels started over 70 years ago and remains a mainstay of their business today, as they overflow the US border and reach their tentacles into Canadian cities.
READ MOREIn the Nov. 4 U.S. election, in addition to the Republicans winning a majority in the Senate and increasing their grip on the House of Representatives, the other big news was the legalization of marijuana in Alaska and Oregon (as well as Washington DC), joining Colorado and Washington as states where pot is legal for recreational use.
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