Court: Canada Has No Laws Banning Pot Possession
Feel like smoking pot legally this weekend? Head to Ontario, Canada where the Globe and Mail reports that:
Canada has no laws prohibiting marijuana possession, an Ontario Superior Court judge said yesterday in a ruling that will be binding on judges in the province and may soon be picked up across the country.
"For today, and for the Victoria Day weekend, it's a very pleasant state of affairs for recreational pot smokers," said criminal lawyer Paul Burstein, who helped argue the case successfully.
The proposed decriminalization law may be unnecessaryif this ruling is upheld and broadened across the country. In fact, some say under this court ruling, the new decriminalization law would actually recriminalize pot possession by allowing fines for pot possession.
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