In a 52-29 vote on Tuesday, Canada’s Senate passed the Cannabis Act, allowing people 18 and over to grow and use marijuana for recreational purposes.
The Act also regulates the growth and sale of the drug and puts strict limits on packaging and limiting home growth to just four plants at a time.
All that’s left now is for the bill to head to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has been an advocate for legislation. Trudeau will decide when the bill will take effect.
According to Senator Tony Dean, the bill’s sponsor in the Senate, the vote was a “brave move on the part of the government.”
He remarked to CBC, “We’ve just witnessed a historic vote for Canada. The end of 90 years of prohibition. Transformative social policy, I think.”
Uruguay was the first country ahead of Canada to legalize recreational marijuana.
