I was going to put this in a new thread. But seeing as how we're talking US / Canada cultural confusion...


I was watching this show on Aussie TV. They went over there and did a story in BC Canada I think it was about marijuana over there.

Apparently Canada has gone quite soft on mull, and no one seems to be particuarly bothered. Except for the Americans of course. Cops walk past ppl smoking it in the streets, open drug deals. There's plenty of ppl growing their own etc.

Cue pictures of bright shiny speedboats and bright shiny helicopters and pressed down uniforms with badges up the wazzoo as America and the DEA etc patrol the border.

Of course maybe that's because Canada's number one export crop the US claims is marijuana, with wheat a far off second. And we all know how barred up and angry the US gets about drugs.


Anyway, they're trying to extradite some guy for marijuana distribution because he was sending seeds to US through the mail. In Canada they can't even be bothered prosecuting him, but the US wants to send him to the klink for 45 years.

It was hilarious. There are the Canadians, and no offence, but they always speak a lot slower than Americans, you know, all cool, no worries, in that Canadian way Americans mistake for mental retardation, and then juxtapose that with all these slightly pent-up American law enforcement types.



It was quite a study in US / Canadian attitudes and ethos.


Hey I remember an episode of Cops [US TV], where no joke they had like 20 cops working a job going crazy over dudes buying like a gram of marijuana. You should have seen it. They were ramming cars, drawing guns, bashing ppl, sending them off the jail.

Again, here, if you were caught with a gram of marijuana, if you weren't let go immediately with at most a written warning, you'd be the most unlikely person in the world.

Almost always the cops throw it down the drain, because its just not worth the effort.