CNIB Redevelopment | 106m | 32s | ONE Properties | Wallman Architects

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archited said:
Edmonton, specifically, and Alberta, more generally, have managed over many years to create a stigma around alcohol -- and now weed -- that makes it feel like a societal taboo. The sooner that ends the better for all, and society can emulate the sanity that is expressed in European centres. When I was a teenager living in Germany I used to take a bottle of beer to school (and so did all of the other high school students) to have as a lunch-time liquid (water at that time was suspect). On school trips to the Mercedes Benz factory and other similar kinds of institutions the hosts used to serve wine at lunch to the entire class. A Gasthaus (Deutschland), Brasserie (France) or Pub (England) were all focused on neighborhood camaraderie and fellowship. Contrast that with Edmonton which, when I was very young used to have large impersonal taverns, divided into "Gentlemen" on one side and "Women with Escorts" on the other; at least the City has moved off of that banality. A wine store with a tasting room or a brew store with a tasting room would be a boon to foot traffic along Jasper Ave. -- ditto for weed. Let's remove the stigma around both -- it might take a generation to settle in, but as the one-time commercial used to go (lyrically) "Why wait for Spring do it now, while there are (men sic) who know how."
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In Belgium I was able to order beer at McDonald's in a McDonald's cup, and in Amsterdam I drank a can of Heineken right beside a canal that I bought at a tourist kiosk of all places... We are definitely still behind European culture and attitudes towards the availability of alcohol and the public consumption of it
 
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Some relevant meanings: Pub = Public House; Gasthaus = Guest House; Brasserie = Brewery. Please, Edmonton and Alberta, remove the stigma around alcohol and weed and I think you will find that crime and extreme behavior goes down not up (as you might have imagined).
 
EdmTrekker said:
And it IS a problem with the UCP pandering to its alt right fanatical religious minority.
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Weren't these regulations set out by the previous NDP government? Not that they had much choice I guess, given how conservative many in AB are when it comes to drugs. I'm all for changing the regs, and I voted for the AB NDPs, but I just want to set the record straight here.
 
EdmTrekker said:
And it IS a problem with the UCP pandering to its alt right fanatical religious minority.
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I can't help but think of this from The Simpsons when I think about our outdated liquor laws

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Edmcowboy11 said:
Actually the policy has been around for a long time, for the logest of time with liqour now cannabis.
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Oh, I know. My comment was that we're talking about development and all, so it is inevitable that politics will eventually be part of the discussion, sometimes regardless of party lines (like the inherent conservatism of Alberta, where even the NDP is to the right of its national counterpart, for example). ;)
 
Did a Cannabis store already open in CNIB or do you guys need Dave to open a new thread in the politics sub-forum to discuss Cannabis legislation, governance, reform, and policy?

Forums contain threads that are specific to topics - make a topic specific to Cannabis elsewhere in the appropriate place. 🤠
 
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