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HAPA CHIC asked in TravelCanadaOther - Canada · 1 decade ago

curious ...why is it when I read on yahoo answer...?

most americans think its legal to smoke and grow mariguana in Canada?

Where did they get this rumour from ?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    A couple of years ago(2003) a Toronto judge ruled that a man could keep marijuana for medicinal purposes. Like any news tidbit the pro marijuana crowd jumped on it like hungry sharks and it snowballed into rumor and innuendo.

    Sort of like playing telephone when you were a kid.. what the sentence was at the start is never even close to the sentence the last one heard.

  • 1 decade ago

    Americans never care about the facts ! They have so many stereotypes about Canada and also many other countries because their own education system is set up so poorly!

    they also think we live in igloos and are a third world to their economy

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Canadians are the biggest pot smokers in the world, really, how sad is that eh? lol...Though illegal, it is tolerated sortha..Maybe that's why, plus there was some controversy some time ago about it in the american media...

  • 1 decade ago

    have no clue but its not true - maybe they do and not get noticed in the Mountains or far out country

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  • 1 decade ago

    because they heard it was no longer a arrestable offense to possess a personal use amount.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    From right wing church groups and conservative news papers.

  • 1 decade ago

    Ha ha ha I dont think that:)

  • 1 decade ago

    keep off the grass!

  • 1 decade ago

    dont have a clue?

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