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!

Thdy must have vastly different smoking laws in Japan. We can't smoke within 4m of entrances (legally), let alone indoors.

I’m American. That’s how we view you guys as well.

She hung out with Rob Ford

They coulda put "aboot" in there

I remain unconvinced.

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.

I spent a season in Whistler 20 years ago, and even though Whistler is "Disney Mountain" I managed to get to know some local residents through Japanese home stay students. Weed was everywhere, granted season skiers and and snowboarders are perhaps not a random selection of the population in that regard.

The one detail in this that slightly annoyed me is the timmy's card. patriotic people don't shop there anymore because of the ownership, also their products have sucked for the last decade anyways. idr when that book came out, though

also, side note, nobody but the east coast is pronouncing it "aboot". there's a clear difference between "about" and "boot". americans just really draw out the "ow" in "out", so yes it sounds closer to "boot", but it's hardly 'exactly how it sounds'. /angryrant

side side note, I don't have a relative who was trampled by a moose, but I do know someone who had their car trampled by a moose

!dcc@piefed.world is leaking.

IMO, it's more "aboat" not "aboot".

But, Americans say "abawt" instead of "about" so we're even.

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

That's just like, Victoria. It's a pretty dope city.

I'm sorry to disappoint. 

I wish but the actual one is probably very mundane.

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. 🤦‍♂️

Fuck, that last bit cracked me up. Consider it stolen.

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.

No, not even among just the illegal narcotics.

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

Short answer: yes

Long answer: yeeeeeeeessssss*

* With some exceptions for medicinal marihuana

I was quite shocked when my neighbor here once offered me a joint. And it's Osaka's central area, and it wasn't that late! Though I sometimes can smell it in the air, and occasionally see teenagers (on the older side) smoking weed, it's usually somewhere far from the crowds and popular places.

Making the stickiest icky.

I mean, if she pours it on everything...

Yeah, okay, but which are you smoking and which are you eating?

Unless you are making an edible, wtf dude?

Smash