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Cannabis will soon be legal. Just don’t smoke it, or grow it, or enjoy it

Partly out of legitimate health and human considerations, and partly out of a desire not to be seen to be blessing the dangerous idea otherwise ordinary people might occasionally enjoy a toke for the pure recreation of it, governments have been busy regulating and restricting everything about the business — as well as the pleasure — before making it legal.

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Talk about buzz kill. At its meeting Tuesday, Halifax city councilors will consider a staff report recommending ever more stringent controls around the cultivation and consumption of cannabis to make sure no one gets the notion there is anything remotely recreational or fun — certainly, definitively not fun— in the air because of the looming legalization…

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