You live in Colorado don't you? I would be surprised if they bothered. It's a different world lol.

Legalized or not, it still cannot be sold on the street :-) There are pretty strict rules about the retailization of marijuana in those places where it is legal.....just as there are about alcohol. It's illegal to sell home brewed beer on the street.....ditto for the pot!

Did you try 911? That would have been an interesting test--to see if they come. That seems pretty BOLD so I am guessing the store employees are correct. Anyone been to Jamaica lately? A world where most people prefer to live HIGH is not one we want to live in!!!

Canada just became the second country in the world to legalize marijuana. Goes into effect October. It passed 52-29.

One of my neighbors is putting together a large scale security business to protect pot growers from rustlers. He's going to hire retired and ex professional military and law enforcement specialists to push the amateur thugs out of the biz.

I hope recreational pot never gets approved nation wide....we have enough walking brain dead without it!

It's not exactly the same, but I certainly love my mornings with brewed coffee and the caffeine gives me a pleasant little boost.

A world where most people prefer to live HIGH is not one we want to live in!!!

Yeah, those 3 martini lunches the biz folks and politicians have are the pits. And they can expense part of it too.

Ahhh......but they all would be very happy and friendly brain dead :-)

And don't hold your breath about it not becoming legalized nationally. It is just a matter of time. In a few years it will be just like liquor.

I wouldn't smoke it any more than I would smoke cigarettes. I used to think it was a fine idea to make it legal but there are enough loonies running around already without everyone being stoned too.

LOL!! One is not any more likely to encounter stoners running around the town in public than you would be likely to encounter drunks. Even in states where it is legalized, you still must be 21 to purchase and it is just as illegal to consume in public places or be under the influence of as it with liquor. And there is really very little difference between the two substances. I would be willing to bet good money that if you were to visit one of the numerous states that have now legalized pot you would not notice ANY difference in the general public and would not be able to tell the potheads from anyone else.

btw, smoking marijuana is only one and a rather minor way of consuming it.

Here in Canada, we're allowed to grow 4 plants per household for personal use. What a joke, WHO the heck is going to enforce THAT??? LOL.

I'm not looking forward to people driving high, they probably are now, but there will be many more, I'm sure. It's also something that the police force is having trouble understanding how to test for it. There's nothing like a breathalyzer for pot.

Smoking, either joints or a bong, eating, oils, vaping, even through the skin. Many ways of using cannabis.

I'm in Pennsylvania. My neighbors are growing it and love to show it off. I hope the wind doesn't blow it my way. Lol.

Recreational pot is legal in California as of the first of the year. While I have nothing against people enjoying pot, the growers pouring into small rural towns to establish their plantations are having quite a negative impact on the quality of life for those of us who do live in these small towns.

My hope is that big tobacco will start growing large commercial pot crops in the central valley resulting in the price small and/or illegal growers get going way down and putting all or most of them out of business. We've already seen the price drop from around $2000/pound to around $800/pound as growers have flooded the market resulting in some of them deciding to get out of the growing business.

" A world where most people prefer to live HIGH is not one we want to live in!!!"

Arcy, I'm late but I echo what gardengal and Lucille said. You can be sure there are huge numbers of people who abuse alcohol in your town, in your neighborhood, on your street. Maybe in your family? I had one.

Drunk drivers kill how many in the US each year? How many men get violent and abusive when drinking alcohol? These numbers far exceed those types of things from marijuana users but of course it's used in all 50 states too.

I enjoy alcoholic beverages and do so responsibly. I once enjoyed other things and tried to do that responsibly too. No one under the influence of anything should be driving but I'd much rather deal with someone stoned and likely rendered passive as with someone who's drunk and unpredictable.

I "used" to think like gardengal...not any more. We've had a huge influx of unemployed people living off the dole coming into our community. Several of them get together and rent a 3 bedroom 2 bath house....and never work a day. Just stay stoned all day. They contribute nothing. The house falls into disrepair. Some are backyard breeders, selling puppies on the side. The corners and medians are "full" of beggars with signs, "anything helps". I remember when they said, "Will work for food". In the winter their warming fires are setting bridges on fire. The creeks are foul. Trash everywhere. They squat on properties, put tents in a residential yard, then have to be evicted. Apartments fires or house fires from making hash oil is a norm.

Growers can't put their "pot money" in banks. They buy properties with the money. Buying a house under $300K has become "almost" impossible. $600k is becoming a norm.

This has all happened in response to legalized pot, in the last couple of years.

Nicole, I thought you had a pretty active business buying, operating and selling rental properties? If prices are going up like you say, you should thank those stoners for padding your retirement fund!

"Did you try 911? That would have been an interesting test--to see if they come."

Good grief, Arcy! Calling 9-1-1 is for life or death emergencies. Someone selling home-grown pot on a public street does not qualify. Sure, let's tie up first responders for simple sh-t like this, so they won't be available for someone having a heart attack.

And is all of that verifiably directly related to the legalization of marijuana? Or just your assumption that it is......:-)

While Seattle and its surrounds has a significant homeless problem, it is not related at all to legalized pot. Alcoholism and mental illness, yes, and multiple issues with vets suffering from a wide variety of problems. But you would be hard pressed to find much marijuana usage in the homeless communities. For one thing, it is a lot more expensive than cheap booze and would take at least a bus ride to get to a dispensary or retail outlet that sells it here. And there is no living 'on the dole' here....if you are collecting unemployment you have to prove you are actively job hunting. And they check! Plus there is a limited time you can collect.

I readily admit to being a pot user - have been for years, long before it was legalized. But then I drank before I was of legal age as well :-) And I am perfectly capable of functioning quite well, thank you very much. I run a successful business, consult, teach, write and mentor others. And remain sharp enough mentally to know not to get in my car after indulging, just the same as I would not do after drinking. Most of the others I know that are regular pot users function much the same - all hold down gainful employment....or are retired. In fact, when visiting the local retail outlet, it is rare to find anyone under the age of 50 shopping there. Even the clerks are older. Pot smoking or imbibing is not relegated to just the young and shiftless.....middle aged and successful business people are just as likely to be users as well as many - like me - in their golden years!

gardengal, I never realized you were a shiftless, irresponsible, homeless pothead! I hope you remember to bathe once in awhile.

Just having some fun at nicole's expense. I do understand what she was saying but maybe the cause and effect line was drawn too directly. Even before repeal, the pot laws in my area weren't enforced for responsible personal use. Not for decades. People will sometimes be charged for possession if found in the context of an arrest for something else and certainly for dealing and moving or smuggling large quantities. But so many grow their own now for personal use, and the medical cards pre-legalization were cheap and the dispensaries are everywhere. It's just not an issue here at all. The police have better things to spend their time on.

I've never met a mean or angry pothead

Neither have I. I so enjoyed those peace loving days with friends. We never smoked in public except for the occasional concert. It was always something enjoyed in a home setting. Dh keeps mentioning a move to Colorado when he retires in another year or two. So many good reasons to leave Louisiana. We'll see.

Elmer....lol....you are correct about my profit margin being up. Really up! On the other hand....I'm moving to a community where fire mitigation is included in the HOA. I want neighbors who prevent forest fires as a requirement. If they want to sit around stoned and do nothing, it's a choice that won't kill me. I also do not want warming fires behind my house.

The problems I'm describing are directly related to the town I live in. The nearby towns are "not" effected in the same manner as we've been. We have a mecca of highways, creeks and forest. A reputation of acceptance and relaxed laws. It was ideal....until now. It's posing a potential threat. We're overrun.

Although people in Canada will be able to grow and smoke cannabis we are warned not to even mention it to border guards when we come to visit the US. We are warned that the US has different rules, it is not legal there and if we say we've even smoked it we can be banned from the US for life.

Also we are told here to not bring our cell phones to the US as if we refuse to let the guard open it and don't give our password that we can be turned back from the border.

If we do give our passwords and the cloud is open they can even look at your cloud. If it's closed they are supposed to not be allowed to open yet. But who knows if somebody will just decide to open it without permission.

It could become so very complicated but that's as with every border of two countries. It's just you all have been our friendly Neighbors for ever that many people will forget when they casually decide to head down to the US with pot and or paraphernalia which can also get you banned.

I'm not sure of the etiquette of posting what I'm saying. If it's a political hot potato maybe I should delete this post.

yeonassky, I think you've been given a lot of bad advice. If you do want to come visit, please do but get better information first. I'm not suggesting you cross the border loaded with drugs of any kind but whoever you heard these things from was either very misinformed themselves or was having fun with you.

There's nothing offensive in anything you said, don't worry about it.

yeonassky.... It's true that you can not bring pot across the border, but they just ask you to leave it behind.....not ban you or get you in trouble. Cell phones are everywhere, even in 3rd world countries. We even have a "free" cell phones give away to poor people here in the US. Cell phones are not searched or looked at, except to put under a scanner to see if there is contraband being smuggled inside of them, like at an airport. We have to take off our shoes too @ the airport. Same thing....nothing to do with searching for software. And....border crossings are more lenient than airports.

The US is still your friendly neighbor.

I agree with gardengal48 on the causes of Seattle's homelessness problem.

It's not due to marijuana. Like she said, there's not much usage of it in the homeless encampments. Heroin and meth, yes. There was recently a massive clean-up in Pierce County, not far from where I live, where sheriff deputies and a haz-maz team cleaned up a homeless encampment of about 30 people. They'd taken over a wooded area. By the end of the clean up, they'd removed 30 TONS of crap. 30 tons of garbage. There were hundreds of tires, hundreds of bikes, toys - even though there were no children living there. All of this stuff stolen to support their drug habits. They also removed (8) one-gallon size containers of needles.

I live about three blocks from a pot shop. The parking lot is always full. Lots of different kinds of cars - expensive (Mercedes and Jaguars), to lesser expensive cars. All different kinds of people buy their pot there. I've seen senior ladies in their late 70's driving away from the store, I've seen younger people. It mostly appears to be older people - at least over 45. I rarely see the stereotypical "stoner," it's always older people.

Also, when you shop at a pot store, they only take cash. Because pot is still a federal crime, and banks are federally regulated, you can't use your debit or credit card there.

Oh sorry this was a report on the CBC. I didn't know that they might have misinformation. Unfortunately everyone is a little worried here about everything.

Non-Americans can indeed be stopped from entering the US, just for pot use. Pot isn't allowed, federally, even if some states do allow it. Border officials are federal employees.

https://globalnews.ca/news/3743970/marijuana-legalization-crossing-us-border/

Why anyone would admit to or volunteer information about marijuana usage when crossing a border is beyond me!! I have never been asked that question when traveling to Canada (or Mexico) nor have I ever been asked to see my cell phone. And we travel back and forth to Vancouver, BC several times a year.

And of course you cannot transport MJ across the border! Even into states where it is legal. It is highly regulated and you cannot cross state lines with it, let alone an international boundary!!

Sometimes people just need to use a little common sense when considering these things......... :-)

I simply need to accept that a guy was selling home grown pot, while shoppers walked past him and no one cared. It's the world I live in!

We were assured it would be highly regulated....it's just a freaking free for all.

When ours becomes legal this fall, in our province, only provincial-run stores will be able to sell. Our booze is sold in LCBO stores (Liquor Control Board of Ontario) with some select wines and beer sold in a few grocery stores. There will be stand-alone pot stores as well. CBO I think, Cannabis Board of Ontario.

I remember when I was on a work-awarded cruise. One of the head agents admitted he used marijuana years ago. He was turned away, and not even allowed on the cruise ship!

Yeonassky is correct in his/her comments. It's all over the news, even others than just CBC, which is so biased it's laughable. Border guards are searching phones, looking for hints of coming to stay, porn, lots of apps and sites about weed. It's legal here, but not in the U.S. Of course, we can't even transport many items province to province....beer etc. So trying to take anything into the US is idiotic.

We have zero liquor stores here, in my town. We have 2 pot shops.

And now they're trying to say they can't keep "sex shops" out of our town.

The town is changing.

Nicole sorry for hijacking. I hope your area straightens out and are forced to follow the rules. Everybody's got a right to be comfortable in their own environs.

yeonassky....it was interesting to hear what other countries think of us. I still hear people freaking out about being searched at the airport too. We travel with scuba gear & camera gear. We always, 100% of the time, get searched. It's a small price to pay not to have to own my own Lear jet to fly somewhere. lol

Is it even legal in your state to grow "home grown"?

It is now in California. As before, except for plots growing quantities beyond what a household could reasonably need for use, discreet cultivation for personal use has long been tolerated by police in most areas. Not all.

Putting plants in the front yard before and now would be stupid but a quiet place in the yard out of view is what the people I know who grow at home usually do.

In 1979 we drove to Mexico City to visit dh's brother and family. I was more concerned about the border police taking our kitten than I was the bag of pot that dh had stashed away. We didn't have it on the return trip and it's a good thing, because our vehicle was searched at that time.

ElizabethA.........Coloradans can grow marijuana in their homes for personal use. Up to six plants are allowed per Colorado resident over age 21, with as many as three plants flowering at one time.

The law states, "in your home".

Lucille....just kidding about the Lear jet. Neither of us has our pilots license. :0)

Lear jet? Gulfstreams are so much nicer and fly slightly below mach 1. :-)

Did you ever walk through the streets in Seattle? The waterfront park near the Pike Market has a purple haze.

Nicole, I think your avenue of complaint if you wish to file a complaint... is through an agency that taxes. One of the arguments for the legalization has been so that it could be taxed. Someone is missing their revenue.

adellabedella....It was a rant. A complaint, but not with a solution. The police really do have better things to do with their time.

jasdip....your post must have been flagged. I temporarily couldn't see it...:0( Thanks for everyones input!

I just pulled up to a stop light. The guy next to me was lighting a bowl.....geez.....

When we can buy legal pot here next year, I'm sure we still won't be allowed to buy it from some guy who sells it from the trunk of his car, just as we can't buy our smokes or booze that way either. lol It will be sold in a store by someone who has a legal licence to sell it. :) I'm glad Canada is legalizing it FINALLY! I, personally, do not smoke it nor do I want to, but there are so many people who do just like those who enjoy a drink or two. They should have the same rights to buy their pot as those who buy booze.

Not sure what our police would have done here, had it happened here and someone called the police though.