Daily Mail: High times! Canadians celebrate the first day of legal recreational marijuana by smoking in the streets as they wait in massive lines outside the 111 stores across the country
* Canada officially became the first industrialized nation to legalize recreational marijuana on Wednesday
* Hundreds of cannabis-craving Canadians lined up at the 111 licensed stores now open across the country
* Toronto police launched a snarky public awareness campaign to remind people to stop calling 911 on smokers
* Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government has been working to legalize marijuana for the past two years
* Trudeau's hope is that a federally-regulated marijuana market will replace the black market
* Experts say that it will take a while for the government to catch up with the demand, and that most of the weed smoked during Wednesday's celebrations will have been purchased on the black market
Hundreds of Canadians have taken to the streets to celebrate the legalization of recreational marijuana following a nearly century-long ban.
Canada officially became the first industrialized nation to legalize the drug on Wednesday following a two-year push by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government, which hopes to bring dealers out of the black market and into a regulated system.
Cannabis connoisseurs appear to have embraced the new system as massive queues formed outside many of the 111 legal pot shops now open around the country.
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WNU Editor: No. I do not smoke pot.
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