Pot legalization day: how high are you?

Wednesday is legal cannabis day in Canada and most media are buzzing with it. I’m not even going to try to survey the range of opinion, but I liked Jonathan Montpetit’s piece on Quebec’s attitude split on the matter. News that minor charges for possession will be pardoned is welcome. The Gazette ran a reefer madness piece by someone identified as “president of Superchute, a Montreal-based manufacturer of construction safety products” which clearly makes him the expert on recreational drugs.

CBC radio news said that people were lining up to get into the official cannabis stores; CTV gives us a view of what they’re like inside.

Global ran an explainer on how to grow your own: you can legally have four plants now (update: but not in Quebec).

In Quebec, of course, the real burning issue as the planet heats up is how to handle religious neutrality issues. Pass the deck chair, somebody.