Ontario and British Columbia extra happy on 4/20

Ever since an Ontario judge passed a law that basically legalized smoking pot in the province of Ontario the rest of the world has been looking at Canada as a country that truly liberates its citizens. It’s not that much of a stretch to call Canada the Amsterdam of North America, without the Red Light Districts of course, Canada is still working on their prostitution stance, but it’s better than Germany’s!.

But unlike their neighbours just south of the border, Canada hasn’t attacked the game of online poker with indictments and arrests, rather they have embraced it, and one by one provinces are creating their own online poker sites.

Today is known as 4/20, it is a universal pot smoking celebration in many parts of the world, in Canada, particularly in British Columbia, it’s damn near a holiday. At the moment, and purely “coincidentally,” I happen to be in Vancouver as we speak, and I shit you not, this morning when I opened the window to get some fresh air, I was greeted with a blast of marijuana smoke, probably from a neighbour a little eager to celebrate with a wake and bake.

I can only imagine what is happening in Ontario with the laws being relaxed, people are probably smoking in the streets, they certainly are Vancouver, no bullshit.

It’s always amazing to me how different Canada’s laws and attitudes are from their southern neighbours. Honestly, there are many places in Canada that are no more than a 10-15 minute drive away from the US border and yet attitudes and freedoms on either side of the white line are night and day.

Does the old adage that people get the government they deserve apply to Americans? It’s hard to say. American laws remain very strict on marijuana despite a recent CNN poll indicating that forty-one percent of Americans surveyed said they support the legalization of marijuana. 56 percent said they oppose it.

If you go back almost a decade to a 2002 CNN/Time magazine poll, the results found 34 percent in favor of legalization and 59 percent opposed. Take it back even further to 1986, when 18 percent supported it and 78 percent opposed it you begin to see a pattern of acceptance and support by the people but very little change by their governments- Examiner.

As industry professionals, it appears we’ve seen the same trend in online gambling and online poker. There’s increasing support for it, yet the government seems to be stalling and recently, going in the opposite direction.

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