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New2grammar Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

legal profession

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00Is a poker player ...<help to fill in> a legal profession?02br
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0Hi,02br
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0Clive, I think your suggestion has a different meaning. It may be legal to play poker but it's may not be recognized by the goverment as a profession. Correct me if I'm wrong.0-
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0Hi,02br
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00 I01font00 think your suggestion has a different meaning. It may be legal to play poker but it's may not be recognized by the goverment as a profession. Correct me if I'm wrong.02font02br
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00My short answer to that is that the government, at least in the countries that I have lived in, is not inv
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0Clive, I see your point. I don't know how it works in Canada or the US but I believe, in the US,when you register for social security or maybe 401 K, you have to fill in your occupation/profession. I'm not sure whether these bodies would accept any occupations. For example, I know the Canadian law allows the sale of marijuana and if a marijuana seller/dealer fills in "drug/marijuana dealer" in
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0Hi,02br
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0Thank you, Clive. I thought I read something about the Canadian goverment giving up the war on drugs due to high expenses and deciding to legalize and tax the sale. I must have imagined that 050010id1
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0 You can get a licence to grow marijuana in Alberta, providing you are growing it for medical purposes: 02br
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0Hi, 02br
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00Yes, but try to actually get such a licence.02br
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00I seem to recollect that, in BC, you can in theory use it for certain approved and very specific health ailments, but as a Catch 22 it's illegal for anyone to actually sell it to you.02br
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00On a more serious note, a few years ago there was actually some public
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