'An Hour Into Legality,' an Illegal Toke in Canada

The first Canadian to buy legal cannabis for recreational use plans to have his purchase framed. It's not clear whether the first person to be ticketed for consuming cannabis in a vehicle under the new law will do the same. Police in Winnipeg, Manitoba, tweeted a picture of the ticket for $672 Canadian ($515 US) and warned that as with alcohol, consuming marijuana in a vehicle is illegal in the province, CTV reports.

"An hour into legality, and something illegal," traffic division Insp. Gord Spado tells the CBC. He says the ticket was issued at a traffic stop at 1am Wednesday, an hour after the new law took effect. In Ontario early Wednesday, another person received a $215 Canadian ($165 US) ticket for driving a "vehicle or boat with cannabis readily available." (The Canadian pot industry is eyeing the rest of the world.)