It passed, but now it is amendment time. Unfortunately, one of the ammenents is significant,
From:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/p...-passes-senate-1.4697124"One amendment would allow provinces to prohibit home cultivation of cannabis if they so choose, rather than accept the four marijuana plants per dwelling allowed under the bill."
So the passed Bill and ammendmets go back to the house. They will need to accept or reject each one and send that back to the Senate.
The bill has passed though, now it's all about finalizing the ammenents and implementing the new law.
I listened to the debate last night before the vote (stream from the Canadian government).
Those in favor of continued criminalization of a plant where spreading the usual fear and missinformation to suppress freedom, and painted themselves as the saviours of others that did not know any better and could not be trusted with their own choices. They painted themselves as enlightened souls with benevolent concern for otners and doing a great good by limiting their choices (it was VERY sad to hear these fascists geting an applause).
Those in favor of legalization were pointing at the practically of it all (controlling the drug better after legalization, revenues from taxing it, stopping the damage to society from criminalizing peaceful citizens, etc). No one I heard stood up for basic the freedom of personal choice and access to nature. That was very dissapointing.
Overall, a small step forward, but we are far from getting to the bottom of the problem of the war on drugs: (1) recognizing the fundamental freedom of the individual to make their own personal choices and pursue their own happiness by having a relationship with nature, may it be spiritual and/or recreational, and (2) recognizing the fundamental ignorance we have about nature and how ridiculous it is that we would consider ourselves, a part of nature, arrogant enough to have the right to make another part of nature illegal.