Was marijuana ever legal in Canada?
Of course it used to be legal. It hasn’t been illegal very long at all. If you look at the history of the time period, the US and Canada follow the same cycles. The Roaring 20s were crazy–large parties, women showing skin, liquor and drugs. What followed was a moral swing of teatotalers that blame drugs and liquor for the worlds problem. In Canada, Opium Act of 1908 was the first prohibited drug law. The next wave of legislation began with the Opium and Narcotic Drug Act of 1920, which was amended in 1921 and again in 1922 before being consolidated in 1923. Penalties became stiffer in the 1920s, with far more prison terms being handed out compared with the earlier period when fines were typically given Maximum prison sentences also increased from one to seven years and in 1922, possession and trafficking became a deportable offence. The catalyst for these laws also differed from the earlier ones in that they were largely the result of the agitation of moral reformers, particularly tho
