Burning Marijuana 1 Oz Silver Maple Leaf

http://www.thecoinshoppe.ca/burning...nd-24k-gold/

This one? Just to say I'm somewhat flabbergasted by the way in which our maple leaf can be so easily transformed into a marijuana leaf. Who's to say, perhaps a junior potato is equally possible.

If I not mistake, the price has been raised.

But again - initial hype, and then - not really interested people.

What happened with "Burning Maple"?
Several of them issued, and not sure, that people remember, which was "the first"...anyway, majority of auctions ended below CAD 100.

There are plenty of cannabis-themed pure silver rounds out there (without the color/plating), such as https://sdbullion.com/2016-1-oz-sil...silver-round

I'd rather have one of those (and I almost bought a few last month before my budget ran out).

Found here;
http://criminalnotebook.ca/index.ph...ncy_Offences

Love that band, particularly "Willin", 1971 Track 5.


There is a theme. Good chuckle.

Simple the RCM just don't care about their copyrights and the counterfeit issue, they leave it to the end users, us.

In upholding this law, the prosecution would be in the difficult position of arguing that the "defacing" of the Maple Leaf coin lessened it's face value below $5. Then the defence would point out that the "enhancing" was not defacement whatsoever because it increased the appeal beyond the $5 value more than 100 fold.

The BofC has always redeemed "mutilated" or defaced banknotes at par, but aside from more recent ARP, not typically coin. Therefore I think this law was designed to prevent a faction from, for example, drawing devil's horns on the effigy of kings or queens in order to make an anti-govt statement whereby the general public would become uncomfortable in accepting "defaced" circualtion coin in their change.

All laws were created with a specific intent. Flash forward to the 21st century in Canada with a PM who promoted the legalization of marijuana as an election promise, meanwhile RCM is likely the direct supplier to this German company. For the court to attempt to prosecute a foreign company for defacing a $5 silver coin while RCM churns out hundreds of NCLT designs each year would be an utterly entertaining court case. If so, is RCM in violation of Cdn Criminal Code as well?

There's no grey area, these unofficial colourings obviously has no RCM authorizations so it's defacing, copyrights infringements, but it's not for us to battle, there are still collectors who believe these mintages of 400 or so, are official RCM products, it's misleading to the hobby but the RCM in their wisdom just don't care because we keep buying their endless coins.