Canadian Police Warn People To Stop Calling 911 About The Smell Of Weed

There is a saying; 'snitches get stitches', and although you obviously can't condone violence, I think most people would agree with the sentiment - telling tales just isn't cool.

Of course there are exceptions, if you neighbour's house is being burgled or you witness a murder, then you should probably (definitely) call the police.

But you definitely don't report someone for doing something that is legal - I think that goes without saying, right?

Well apparently not.

Police in Canada recently had to launch a public information campaign, telling people to stop 'narcing' on their neighbours for smoking marijuana.

As you will probably remember, it recently became legal to possess and smoke the green herb in Canada, with around 100 pot stores opening all over the country to sell it, according to Associated Press.

Under the new laws, Canadians over the age of 18 can buy up to 30 grams of weed per time legally. That's also how much you can have on you at any time in public. At home, you can have as much as you like.

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Being a federal country there is some variation, for example the legal age in Ontario will be 19 and shops have not opened there yet, though residents can buy weed online and have it delivered to their home.

However, it would seem that some people didn't get the memo and have been grassing up their neighbours to the police after smelling the drug or seeing people smoking a joint in the street..

After being inundated with calls, the Toronto Police department took to Twitter to tell people to give it a rest.

And it is the sassiest thread of tweets you will read, with the communications team ripping into time wasters for calling them up for ridiculous reasons, such as asking for directions.

Police shared two more tweets informing people about the importance of only contacting them in case of an emergency, and not 'asking what to do with your frozen meat during a power outage', or if they would 'call for directions because you're lost'.

Others have taken a slightly different approach to the legalisation of cannabis, taking the opportunity to really cash in - even a nine-year-old little girl.

Girl guide Elina Childs set up shop outside one of the new weed shops in Alberta, Edmonton, with a truck load of cookies and sold the whole lot.

The world needs more Elinas.

Topics: Drugs, international news

Dominic Smithers

Dominic graduated from the University of Leeds with a degree in French and History. Like you, Dom has often questioned how much use a second language has been. Well, after stints working at the Manchester Evening News, the Accrington Observer and the Macclesfield Express, along with never setting foot in France, he realised the answer is surprisingly little. But I guess, c'est la vie. Contact us at [email protected]

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