Being a prostitute is legal but buying her services is not. It's just because we want prostitutes to call the police if they get hurt or something like that.
Plus, prostitutes, dur to the nature of their services, already tend to have blackmail info on many of their (especially married) clients, so if blackmail was going to be their business model, they don't need this law.
Pilots aren't in short supply. Pilots willing to accrue $40k in dept for the necessary education to then get paid $25k a year are very much in short supply. Many regional pilots are on food stamps. This is the reason I currently write software instead of flying commercial airplanes.
If only the market was as simple as this. The reason as with many things lies with the fact that when an industry has a small number of large employers, they can conspire to cap wages fairly easily without ever actually speaking to each other, and indeed it probably happens without any illegal conspiracy, just them banking on each other to not undercut.
It's been years since I was a student pilot, but it doesn't look like things have changed much. Back then, there were many commercial pilots at the low end, making peanuts. Only at the middle & upper levels do you really start to make money
It's a similar situation to National Park Rangers: there are so many people willing to do the job that wages are very low.
The going rate for training to commercial level in the UK is £120k. I wonder what accounts for the difference. Pilot wages are higher than the $25k you mention. Are those regional airlines subsidising the training?
I've heard of people quitting 1000$ a month cocaine habit and then adopting a 2000$ a month kratom habit. Kratom must absolutely not be hailed as a miracle drug.
Was kratom causing craving and crippled life ? (basically searching for drug and then high, {loop}). If 2000$ kratom gives you a normal life it "may" be worth the price.
That is super weird to me. It's only worth the price if there are no other way, but there are. One of them is using kratom and being extremely careful about becoming an addict.
Canada could be a leader in the global cannabis market — if the rules loosen up: experts
"“We’re currently shipping cannabis to several of these countries already. We’re already taking advantage of this opportunity,” he explained, citing Europe as a current client for several major Canadian marijuana growers."
Note that they can't stop you from entering the country if you're a US citizen. They can, however, make it a massive pain in the ass. Anyone have any practical experience here?
I no longer live in CO, at this point I assume most people who buy off the black market just have a friend with a lot of plants who can grow it at a cheaper price.
Nothing special will happen. Smoked weed is and will be a niche drug, since not many people like to smoke, and we all know how terrible it is for the mouth, the throat, and the lungs. Creative cannabis usage (oils, edibles...) will find a place, I'm sure. Still, the overarching issue will be the stigma weed has as a drug used by lazy people and hippies. It will take decades for that to change. Once that happens, we can revisit how weed affects people, and act on it if need be.
i travel every year to the US for vacations and for US border patrol, it really depends on the state.
i hated coming in through detroit or atlanta (one atlanta officer even tried to find me on facebook -- wtf?). but only had good experiences with new york city and chicago.
That's interesting, I went to Canada with my Mom and sister one time when they were visiting. My sister had a felony from when she was under 18 and it was also expunged or whatever the term.
We had to sit for about an hour and she had to go through a bunch of questioning but eventually they let us all through.
Every time tho I've had my car searched, it's too much of a hassle really to bother with going up there anymore for me personally.
Canadian Human Rights Tribunals often produce concerning rulings regarding free speech [1]. I found this case to be particularly concerning even if the "jokes" in question were distasteful. Reminds me of the "Nazi Pug" in the UK [2] which was equally alarming.
Recreational pot use here in Maine is "legal", but easy access to stores that sell pot explicitly for recreational use has been aggressively stalled and stymied by our republican state government. Only recently did our legislature finally overturn the last (hopefully) hurdle that the governor set up.
From personal experience (as an Oregon resident, not a drug dealer), it will be incredibly difficult for black market sellers to compete with the technology and economies of scale that large companies will bring to bear on the cannabis market. Taxes would have to be much, much higher (200%?) to allow for significant black market competition. Of course there will always be some fraction who buy "under the table" just as there will always be some people who prefer to brew their own beer but overall their impact is negligible as a proportion of the whole.
Bizarrely, the UK is the world's largest legal exporter. (Canada is second.) The managing director of the exporter, British Sugar, is married to the government's drugs minister. It's very cosy.
SAAQ,SAQ and Revenue Quebec too, but not all govt sites.
The immigration site of Quebec govt. sucks with huge down times, bad UX and even data loss of many aspiring skilled economic immigrants. May be because its for immigrants and temporary workers, so no one cares.
Alcohol just covers it up temporarily and can ruin your sleep cycle as well. Have you tried exercise? That works for many people as well. Magic Mushrooms are also a very happy illegal substance that really help me.
I think society understands alcohol more than we understand weed. We know what the signs of alcohol abuse look like, more or less, and we are increasingly becoming uncomfortable with our peers regularly drinking to the point of drunkenness. It's acceptable occasionally, but even in college I see kind of a trend towards people refraining from that kind of behavior.
It's completely different for pot atm. We don't understand it but still many people think it's perfectly safe and without consequence. Now that it's legalized in Canada we can start to get ourselves informed and observe the real consequences, whatever they may be. Perhaps people will choose to refrain in the future, perhaps people will have a couple joints a week similarly to how seemingly most adults partake in alcohol now.
I also want to make it clear that I don't believe pot or alcohol are without their benefits. Alcohol certainly gives me a tangible benefit when enjoyed in small amounts occasionally. I was only trying to make a point that weed is not consequence free, that we shouldn't delude ourselves into thinking it is 100% of the time.
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[ 4.0 ms ] story [ 174 ms ] threadBeing a prostitute is legal but buying her services is not. It's just because we want prostitutes to call the police if they get hurt or something like that.
Plus, prostitutes, dur to the nature of their services, already tend to have blackmail info on many of their (especially married) clients, so if blackmail was going to be their business model, they don't need this law.
So, IE, Blasphemous Libel is a thing in Canada.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemous_libel#Canada
It's a similar situation to National Park Rangers: there are so many people willing to do the job that wages are very low.
Was kratom causing craving and crippled life ? (basically searching for drug and then high, {loop}). If 2000$ kratom gives you a normal life it "may" be worth the price.
"“We’re currently shipping cannabis to several of these countries already. We’re already taking advantage of this opportunity,” he explained, citing Europe as a current client for several major Canadian marijuana growers."
https://globalnews.ca/news/4426312/canada-global-cannabis-ma...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cognzTud3Wg
Edit: I'm not a pilot, just a kid that never grew up and likes airplane stuff...
i hated coming in through detroit or atlanta (one atlanta officer even tried to find me on facebook -- wtf?). but only had good experiences with new york city and chicago.
We had to sit for about an hour and she had to go through a bunch of questioning but eventually they let us all through.
Every time tho I've had my car searched, it's too much of a hassle really to bother with going up there anymore for me personally.
To hear my uncle tell it, I've got some _really_ bad news for Canadians about the prevalence of alcoholism amongst pilots.
According to him, something like 1/8th of them are some level of drunk while flying.
They can deny for any arbitrary reason, or no reason at all!
[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mike-ward-comedian-h...
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2018/04...
The immigration site of Quebec govt. sucks with huge down times, bad UX and even data loss of many aspiring skilled economic immigrants. May be because its for immigrants and temporary workers, so no one cares.
Although it'd be nice to not need anything, but it helps so much with anxiety (and other stuff).
It's completely different for pot atm. We don't understand it but still many people think it's perfectly safe and without consequence. Now that it's legalized in Canada we can start to get ourselves informed and observe the real consequences, whatever they may be. Perhaps people will choose to refrain in the future, perhaps people will have a couple joints a week similarly to how seemingly most adults partake in alcohol now.
I also want to make it clear that I don't believe pot or alcohol are without their benefits. Alcohol certainly gives me a tangible benefit when enjoyed in small amounts occasionally. I was only trying to make a point that weed is not consequence free, that we shouldn't delude ourselves into thinking it is 100% of the time.