Call it an experiment or call it boredom, but recently I scoured through Amazon’s website looking for something, anything, to buy. I am a bit of an impulse shopper, and looking for a good deal is my M.O. I had no clue what the heck I was looking for. From dog collars for my new puppy, to Tide Pods (for use in the washing machine, I assure you). Yes Tide Pods. It is pretty comparable in price to the likes of Walmart if you can believe, and delivered right to your door! In any event, as I enter keyword after keyword looking for a steal, an email alert came up on my screen. Part of that email reads:
“The designated smoking area is located on the south side of the building, on the eastern edge of the parking lot as shown in the diagram included in this email (below). All of the signs referring to ‘no smoking within nine metres’ of the entrances will be removed. Signage indicating ‘smoking in the designated area only’ will be added to the site, and all stand-alone ashtray/receptacles will be removed.”
THIS, it seems, is a sign of things to come. Not only am I a “vaper” or “cloud chaser” as some would like to call us (which also applies to the smoking ban, even though it doesn’t produce actual smoke), I am an ACMPR patient, or now referred to as the Cannabis Act. Provinces will have flexibility to set added restrictions such as lowering possession limits, increasing the minimum age, restricting where cannabis may be used in public, and setting added requirements on personal cultivation. The rules are different for recreational and medical use. As the newly revised Smoke Free Ontario Act states,
“Medical cannabis is used for its therapeutic benefits. Therefore, it will continue to be treated differently from recreational cannabis, which is addressed under the Cannabis Act, 2017. A primary concern of the government is to protect everyone from the potentially harmful effects of medical cannabis second-hand smoke and vapour.”
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