Canada Has Legalized Recreational Marijuana

According to the Mises Institute (June 29, 2018) Recreational marijuana use will soon be legal in Canada after the Senate passed a "historic" bill on Tuesday with a vote of 52-29.... The act to legalize the recreational use of weed was first introduced on April 13, 2017, and was later passed at the House of Commons in November. The Senate passage of the bill was the final hurdle in the process.

With the bill's passage, Canada becomes only the second national government to legalize marijuana. (The first was Uruguay in 2013.)

This changes the geography of drug prohibition in North American considerably. Given that the entire West Coast of the United States, and much of New England has now legalized recreational marijuana, this adds yet another large swath of North America (excluding Mexico) to what we might call the "legalization" zone."
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Although the Canadian government had initially stated its intent to implement by July 2018, provinces and territories, who will be responsible for drafting their own rules for marijuana sales, have advised that they would need eight to 12 weeks after the Senate approval to transition to the new framework. The government is expected to choose a date in early or mid September.

Once the bill is formally approved, adults will be able to carry and share up to 30 grams of legal marijuana in public. They also will be allowed to cultivate up to four plants in their households and prepare products such as edibles for personal use.