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Anyone for Weedy Wednesday?
Jan. 22nd, 2019 01:32 pmToday with our daily newspaper, there was a special supplement entitled The Cannabis Post. Fifty - or even forty years ago, I never thought I'd see the day!
Back in the sixties and seventies, the media were abuzz with How to Tell if your Teen is on Drugs. These much-parodied photos of young people had arrows pointing to the glassy eyes with dilated pupils, the O Cannabis T-shirts and frayed-hem flared jeans and made dire warnings about stashes of aluminum foil and razor blades and matches and incense and snacks for the "munchies" in their bedroom closets and their knapsacks... and so on. Marijuana and other forms of cannabis were deemed to be gateway drugs - "It leads to harder stuff", a line which I think may have been in the film Easy Rider, with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper. Of course, if your teen was interested in music festivals or love-ins or be-ins, or decorated his or her room with psychedelic black-light posters - in short, if there was any evidence of typical teen behaviour of the day - then that in itself was suspect! The teens in question were generally well aware of who the "narcs" were in the classroom. They were the ones who really looked a little old to be still in high school and didn't seem altogether comfortable in the role, the army brats whose cover story was that they had just transferred mid-year from Chilliwak or Woodstock or Petawawa. Is it any wonder that our current prime minister - who was barely a twinkle in his parents' eye in those days - is keen to get the cannabis out of the closet and into the living rooms of the nation?
And is it any wonder that the supplement with today's paper seemed to be targeted to the seniors of today?
I think there's definitely a strong potential market for both medical and recreational cannabis in this country. But as far as Ontario is concerned, the path to that market has been paved with stumbling blocks and conflicting intentions. For myself, I've often wondered if cannabis could lessen my reliance on the various medications I take to tame my arthritis. But I'd mainly be interested in cannabis edibles which unfortunately are not yet available in the legal market. I could of course buy some cannabis oil and explore the recipes in my Alice B. Toklas cookbook, as well as the proliferation of new cookbooks and online recipes. But I'd love to see restaurants distribute a cannabis menu along with the wine list, and perhaps even allow Bring Your Own Dope as well! Dare we hope that the Next Canada Food Guide will include Cannabis as a major food group?
By fall 2019, cannabis edibles are slated to be legally available in Canada. Maybe we should start planning now for Weedy Wednesday 2020?
Back in the sixties and seventies, the media were abuzz with How to Tell if your Teen is on Drugs. These much-parodied photos of young people had arrows pointing to the glassy eyes with dilated pupils, the O Cannabis T-shirts and frayed-hem flared jeans and made dire warnings about stashes of aluminum foil and razor blades and matches and incense and snacks for the "munchies" in their bedroom closets and their knapsacks... and so on. Marijuana and other forms of cannabis were deemed to be gateway drugs - "It leads to harder stuff", a line which I think may have been in the film Easy Rider, with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper. Of course, if your teen was interested in music festivals or love-ins or be-ins, or decorated his or her room with psychedelic black-light posters - in short, if there was any evidence of typical teen behaviour of the day - then that in itself was suspect! The teens in question were generally well aware of who the "narcs" were in the classroom. They were the ones who really looked a little old to be still in high school and didn't seem altogether comfortable in the role, the army brats whose cover story was that they had just transferred mid-year from Chilliwak or Woodstock or Petawawa. Is it any wonder that our current prime minister - who was barely a twinkle in his parents' eye in those days - is keen to get the cannabis out of the closet and into the living rooms of the nation?
And is it any wonder that the supplement with today's paper seemed to be targeted to the seniors of today?
I think there's definitely a strong potential market for both medical and recreational cannabis in this country. But as far as Ontario is concerned, the path to that market has been paved with stumbling blocks and conflicting intentions. For myself, I've often wondered if cannabis could lessen my reliance on the various medications I take to tame my arthritis. But I'd mainly be interested in cannabis edibles which unfortunately are not yet available in the legal market. I could of course buy some cannabis oil and explore the recipes in my Alice B. Toklas cookbook, as well as the proliferation of new cookbooks and online recipes. But I'd love to see restaurants distribute a cannabis menu along with the wine list, and perhaps even allow Bring Your Own Dope as well! Dare we hope that the Next Canada Food Guide will include Cannabis as a major food group?
By fall 2019, cannabis edibles are slated to be legally available in Canada. Maybe we should start planning now for Weedy Wednesday 2020?
