Want to know your future? Don’t go to your psychic reader anymore when you can call on Matt Groening instead - as he’s managed to see into the future! After predicting the final of the World Cup in Russia, the election of Donald Trump and other things even more surprising, the animated series was right about the legalisation of cannabis in Canada.
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I’m seeing… I’m seeing... the legalisation of cannabis in Canada!
The Simpsons predicted the legalisation of cannabis in Canada in the episode 'Papy Smuggling', which was released on January 16th, 2005 in the United States, and September 12th, 2005 in France. In this episode, Homer, Ned, Grandpa and Apu go to Canada to find drugs. Surprised, they fall upon the look-alike of Flanders who offers them the chance to smoke cannabis, since it’s legal -in the episode-!
Miracle: Canada has decided to legalise recreational cannabis this year, on October 16th, 2018. This is the second country in the world to allow this substance legally after Uruguay. What will he predict next? The future will tell!
