I'm just gonna go make some popcorn while I wait for the random Swede or Canadian to wander into this thread.

We wasn't exactly as nice about it as I was lead to believe a Canadian would be.

I wonder if it has anything to do with lack of enforcement making weed effectively decriminalized long before the official legalization went through. Official legalization was more of a "government and their buddies want in on the lucrative market", ignoring that weed was only as expensive as saffron because of the legal risk (or illusion of one) that went along with trading it.

Saffron is expensive because each plant grows 1-4 flowers, and each flower has two yellow and two red stigmata, and saffron is the two red ones. A whole acre of it will yield less than a kilo IIRC.

Weed, on the other hand, is aptly named because it is happy growing pretty much anywhere from swamps to dessert mountains. Only real complication with it is the whole determining the sex of the plant ASAP to remove/separate the males before they pollinate the females and then watch for hermaphrodites. Though, even then, it only affects the quality of the final product, as fertalized females still produce bud, it just has seeds in it (at a surprisingly high density if you've never gotten seedy bud before) and doesn't mature the same. Still works fine for extracts.

If done properly, you can get the whole yield of an acre of saffron from a single weed plant.

At least 4 knots. Maybe 5 idk.

I’m from Canada.

It’s not America.

As a Canadian this is the realist thing ever. Half our identity is being not-American.

Sorry, but I don't see her saying sorry!

Maple syrup is the greatest thing on earth, and we treat it accordingly, with moderation, not like ketchup which is the third handle on American faucets.

So stupid...

The ketchup faucet is the first one. 🤦‍♂️

They coulda put "aboot" in there

You want her to pour some maple syrup on you?

I would've thought corruption, racism and being fat.

She hung out with Rob Ford

That's the reefer madness. East Asia takes a very hard line against drugs. As late as the 70s people in Japan would get 30 years in prison for possession of marijuana. Dealing drugs is often the death penalty across the region.

Nah, that's the maple. We get crazy with the sticky tree blood in us.

I think Canada has next to zero in marijuana exports, because it's illegal to import it in most places. It does contribute billions to Canada's GDP, but that's production and consumption that never leaves the country.