Cannabis in Manitoba

Cannabis in Manitoba became legal when the national Cannabis Act went into force on October 17, 2018.

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Legalization

In December 2017, Manitoba introduced the Safe and Responsible Retailing of Cannabis Act, detailing their plans for recreational cannabis use and sales. The age for use would be set at 19, and communities would be allowed to opt-out of cannabis sales by plebiscite. Home-growing of cannabis would be prohibited. Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries would source all cannabis to retailers, where it would be sold in private-sector stores.[1][2]

By the time recreational marijuana was legal in Canada, Manitoba had firmed up its rules. The minimum age is 19, cannabis must not be smoked or vaped in public, home growing is not legal and individuals may carry up to 30 grams of cannabis while in public. Purchases can be made on-line or at the provincially licensed retail stores operated by private enterprise companies.[3]

In October 2019, Premier Brian Pallister announced plans to ban consumption of edibles in public in Manitoba by December.[4][5]

Manitoba First Nations

Three nations in Manitoba, Opaskwayak Cree Nation, Long Plain First Nation, and Peguis First Nation, formed an alliance with National Access Cannabis in 2016, seeking to gain profit for their communities from legalization, and lobby for their interests on issues such as tax rebates for cannabis sold on reserves.[6]

Industrial hemp

Commercial cultivation of industrial cannabis was banned in Canada in 1938, but as of 1928 1,640 acres of cannabis were grown in Canada, with 1,200 of those acres being in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba.[7]

Usage

In 2013, 11.5 percent of residents reported that they consumed cannabis in the past twelve months, the fifth highest in the country.[8] In 2017, Statistics Canada reported that the province had the fifth lowest per capita usage in the country of 18.31 grams per person.[9][10]

See also

References
  1. Manitoba to ban home grown cannabis - Lift News
  2. https://news.lift.co/manitoba-ban-home-grown-cannabis/
  3. "Legal pot in Manitoba — here's a refresher on rules". Global News. 18 October 2018. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  4. https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/taking-cannabis-edibles-in-public-to-be-banned-in-manitoba-says-premier-1.4624633
  5. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/pallister-pot-edibles-public-1.5309636
  6. 'Foolish not to': Manitoba First Nations want in on legal pot sales - Manitoba - CBC News
  7. Report of the Minister of Agriculture for Canada. Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery. 1927. p. 15.
  8. "B.C., Nova Scotia home to the most marijuana smokers: StatsCan". torontosun.com. Toronto Sun. 18 September 2013. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  9. Quon, Alexander (30 April 2018). "Nova Scotians smoke the most weed per capita in Canada: StatsCan". globalnews.ca. Global News. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  10. "Provincial and Territorial Cannabis Economic Accounts, 2017". statcan.gc.ca. Statistics Canada. 30 April 2018. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
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