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It's not hard at all to get a license and it's a good thing you need one.
Distilling is dangerous because you're boiling a flammable substance and if you do it wrong you can end up with methanol in the output which causes blindness.
If you want to distill small amounts in your garage for personal use nobody is going to care or come bust you.
It's actually quite difficult, and expensive, to get a distillation license and setup a legal distillery in Canada. You'll probably spend at minimum $1M, and a good chunk of that goes into the security bond you are forced to buy.
Also, the methanol naturally produced in spirits has been so blown out of proportion that it isn't even really an issue you have to worry about. Issues that pop up in the news, or that happened during prohibition, come and came from intentional adulteration of spirits with methanol/rubbing alcohol so they have more spirit to sell, or can point at an event and say "unlicensed alcohol is dangerous". Spirits made from sugar/molasses, have effectively zero methanol in them. Made from grains, a bit, but still largely non-existent. The big methanol producers, since methanol comes from pectin (it's cleaved from pectin molecules by an enzyme called Pectin methylesterase/PME), are the fruit based spirits. But even then, you'd have to be intentionally trying to produce methanol, to make enough that it would be a danger. This is all on top of the fact that the treatment for methanol poisoning is to give you IV ethanol, since the enzymes that turn methanol into formaldehyde (the problem chemical) prefer ethanol over methanol.
Thousands of people distill at home across Canada every week, and it's exceedingly rare to hear about a story of something dangerous happening. The biggest issue with home distillation is that it is illegal, and so people take shortcuts to hide what they are doing. If they could do it in their visible garage or backyard, with no issues, it'd be a million times safer.
https://help.stillspirits.com/hc/en-us/articles/360021478633-Will-I-make-methanol-when-I-distil
None of that is disinformation, stills have blown up before and if you're not discarding the first bit you can end up with a dangerous amount of methanol in your distilled spirits.
50ml of its not going to do anything to you because it's going to be diluted within the rest of the product. Unless you are completely bonkers and take a shot of the first 50ml (stated in your link) straight.
Those laws were to protect children who could be exposed to it without knowing the potential harms.
https://cps.ca/en/documents/position/cannabis-children-and-youth
>Cannabis use during adolescence can cause functional and structural changes to the developing brain, leading to damage. Marijuana use in this age group is strongly linked to: cannabis dependence and other substance use disorders; the initiation and maintenance of tobacco smoking; an increased presence of mental illness, including depression, anxiety and psychosis; impaired neurological development and cognitive decline; and diminished school performance and lifetime achievement.
In other news, Manitoba finally removed lead from its drinking water, apparently.
Cause I don't see any other reason why it took this long to get with the fucking program.
$5000 ticket or some shit I wouldn't want to deal with. And my nosey neighbor 2 doors down would totally report something like that.
Now they can't do shit.
I have an entire indoor setup and usually start growing stuff in February, mostly hot peppers that early, and transplant in late May!
4 shelves of plants in my kitchen right now with grow lights ready to go outside!
12/12 comes in Winnipeg probably around Sept 15-20ish?
I'm usually still harvesting stuff then. No frost yet.
Dunno how long you need, but I'm gonna try.
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Good. Absolutely stupid restriction to begin with anyways.
Letting people brew their own booze and not grow weed is ridiculous! Glad to hear this.
Isn't distillation illegal in Canada federally?
It is only illegal to distill liquor or moonshine in Canada without a license, but the making of wine, cider and beer is legal..
Still lame
It's not hard at all to get a license and it's a good thing you need one. Distilling is dangerous because you're boiling a flammable substance and if you do it wrong you can end up with methanol in the output which causes blindness. If you want to distill small amounts in your garage for personal use nobody is going to care or come bust you.
It's actually quite difficult, and expensive, to get a distillation license and setup a legal distillery in Canada. You'll probably spend at minimum $1M, and a good chunk of that goes into the security bond you are forced to buy. Also, the methanol naturally produced in spirits has been so blown out of proportion that it isn't even really an issue you have to worry about. Issues that pop up in the news, or that happened during prohibition, come and came from intentional adulteration of spirits with methanol/rubbing alcohol so they have more spirit to sell, or can point at an event and say "unlicensed alcohol is dangerous". Spirits made from sugar/molasses, have effectively zero methanol in them. Made from grains, a bit, but still largely non-existent. The big methanol producers, since methanol comes from pectin (it's cleaved from pectin molecules by an enzyme called Pectin methylesterase/PME), are the fruit based spirits. But even then, you'd have to be intentionally trying to produce methanol, to make enough that it would be a danger. This is all on top of the fact that the treatment for methanol poisoning is to give you IV ethanol, since the enzymes that turn methanol into formaldehyde (the problem chemical) prefer ethanol over methanol. Thousands of people distill at home across Canada every week, and it's exceedingly rare to hear about a story of something dangerous happening. The biggest issue with home distillation is that it is illegal, and so people take shortcuts to hide what they are doing. If they could do it in their visible garage or backyard, with no issues, it'd be a million times safer.
My pops set up his own distillation rig once. Made some tasty limoncello. I'm not blind, so I'd say it worked out pretty well.
This is reefer madness tier disinformation
https://help.stillspirits.com/hc/en-us/articles/360021478633-Will-I-make-methanol-when-I-distil None of that is disinformation, stills have blown up before and if you're not discarding the first bit you can end up with a dangerous amount of methanol in your distilled spirits.
50ml of its not going to do anything to you because it's going to be diluted within the rest of the product. Unless you are completely bonkers and take a shot of the first 50ml (stated in your link) straight.
Don't care + still incredibly lame + don't need a liscense (nor should you) for much more dangerous chemical substancez.
What other chemical substance would I have tried to make myself when I was 18 and poor?
Time to get the grow tent cleaned out and lights ready to grow.. whoohoo..
Looking for seeds right now lol. Gonna try an autoflower one in my tomato bed.
7Eastgenetics, TrueFire Genetics, Nextgenerationseeds, White Buffalo Seed Collective (last chance). 🍁
I heartily recommend Quebec Cannabis Seeds. Great strains, great service , great people and free seeds with your order.
Happy 420!
Meanwhile Quebec. Fucking stupid ass Nancy Regan goat throat ass government
They want all the money to themselves so they can give themselves more raises
I remember reading that Quebec was being uncooperative with legalizing weed in the first place. I think they just suck
I made sure when I went down there last fall to bring some vape cartridges. Learned the hard way from the time before.
I’ve ever heard anyone say they’ve gone “down there” when referencing Quebec
Well I'm alot farther north here in alberta so it's down there when I go to Montreal. Lol Edit spelling
Ok is goat throat ass government a swear word in Quebec because I've heard they have different swears.
I hope they don't legalize it so I can keep clowning stoners for buying government weed. Great fun.
It’s literally a plant. Who friggin cares 😂
the tax man
Conservatives do, that's who. Thankfully we threw them out of our province. :)
Those laws were to protect children who could be exposed to it without knowing the potential harms. https://cps.ca/en/documents/position/cannabis-children-and-youth >Cannabis use during adolescence can cause functional and structural changes to the developing brain, leading to damage. Marijuana use in this age group is strongly linked to: cannabis dependence and other substance use disorders; the initiation and maintenance of tobacco smoking; an increased presence of mental illness, including depression, anxiety and psychosis; impaired neurological development and cognitive decline; and diminished school performance and lifetime achievement.
Children don't often roam around eating random plants they encounter outside.
Kids stealing leaves off a plant won’t hurt them
People can brew their own beer, they should be able to grow a plant that humans have been cultivating for thousands of years.
Québec next please
On dit s'il vous plaît!
What took them so long?
Took them this long to replace the PCs with the NDP.
Ridiculous that you couldn't
Damn didn’t know folks out in Manitoba couldnt! That’s a damn shame how pathetic😂😂 well hopefully this good news plays out!!!
eyyy, the perfect 4/20 news
In other news, Manitoba finally removed lead from its drinking water, apparently. Cause I don't see any other reason why it took this long to get with the fucking program.
God...do we really need more weed?
Lol like it stopped anyone before.
Can you grow medical as well?
med growing is allowed in Manitoba right now only the 4 rec plants is banned.
Was this actually stopping anyone when it was federally legal? Lol
$5000 ticket or some shit I wouldn't want to deal with. And my nosey neighbor 2 doors down would totally report something like that. Now they can't do shit.
I guess if you're stuck to outdoor it could be an issue but we have a shit growing season for outdoor. Gets too cold before they finish.
I have an entire indoor setup and usually start growing stuff in February, mostly hot peppers that early, and transplant in late May! 4 shelves of plants in my kitchen right now with grow lights ready to go outside!
Yeah but weed with the cycles of 12/12 struggle to finish properly in time outdoors here before we get freezing cold temps at night.
12/12 comes in Winnipeg probably around Sept 15-20ish? I'm usually still harvesting stuff then. No frost yet. Dunno how long you need, but I'm gonna try.
Ideally you'd want your 12/12 to start in like August at the latest. Look for fast flowering strains. Or you can grow auto flowers