Cannabis Receives Royal Assent

After a Senate vote of 52 to 29 in favour of Bill C-45, and an announcement by Prime Minister Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that recreational marijuana would officially be legal by mid-October of this year, the Cannabis Act is now officially law after receiving royal assent this morning. Canadians will be able to legally light up beginning on October 17 of this year.
The new law signals the end of a 95-year prohibition on non-medical cannabis.