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Canada voluntarily signed off on international treaties and conventions calling for prohibition of certain drugs. If they want to back out, they can. Do you think the U.S. would invade Canada if Canada legalized marijuana? There is some threat of trade sanctions but those in our government who make that kind of noise are just worried that if Canada legalizes it won't be long before it happens here too. Publicly they'll say they worry about pot coming over the border here, but that's totally irrational. More pot comes in from Canada now that the industry is unregulated than would ever come in if it was regulated. The fact is that Canada wouldn't have much to worry about from us if they legalized marijuana. Canada is an important trading partner. Trade sanctions against Canada would hurt American business interests too, and the fact is that most Americans could care less if Canada legalizes marijuana. There was a recent Zogby poll asking Americans if they believe our federal government should allow states to tax marijuana and regulate it similar to the way we regulate alcohol and almost half of those surveyed said that the feds should allow states to do that if states want to do that. If almost half of all U.S. citizens think states should have the right to do that, what percentage of us do you think would care if another country legalized, taxed and regulated marijuana within their own borders? My guess is that most U.S. citizens wouldn't care, and they would not support major sanctions against Canada for passing such laws in their own country because such sanctions would hurt us too.

The fact is though that there is not enough support in your country to fully legalize marijuana yet. You feel the need to blame someone for this so you pick the U.S. We do not rule the world. Do we ever exert political and economic pressure on other countries to further our interests? Sure we do, and so does every other country. Canada does it too. The U.S. is a powerful country, no doubt about that, much more powerful than Canada in the global community. But we do not control Canada. We do not control Europe or any other country. Our government only controls our country and that's only because we let it. Canada is a sovereign nation. It can pass whatever internal laws it wants to pass.

Again though, the problem is that there isn't enough support to legalize marijuana in your country and those in your government that want to do this don't have the testicles to stand up for what they believe in. They just pass the buck and blame it on the U.S., just like you are doing. You need to stop blaming your problems on us and tell your politicians to grow some balls and run your country the way you want it run.

extremely good reply! thanks!

but a thing a bit weird is why does our politicians doesn't have the balls to stand off against georgy? there's a reason behind it other than cowardness!

Also by saying invading, i wasn't talking about a war or something, i am not that paranoid!

"and they would not support major sanctions again" that is something i cannot rely on after watching CNN..let me explain... it happens oftenly where they mention that we should be careful with the borders from Canada and one more precise exemple is we had in toronto a weird case of 10 really old people died in an hospital almost all at the same time...cnn forgot to mentionned the fact they were old and said that no death was reported after but they "found" out it might be a super virus that would mutate into an epedemic case of death all around the country and what would be worse is one of those infected canadians getting through the borders" he said that word by word...that is bad, and that's why i am getting out of humour easily on that matter...

but unfortunately more than half of canada is supoprting legalisation, but harper clearly said : i will not get back on the issue of decriminalization and harper is well known to have a really good relation with georgy, again... now sorry for the way i wrote my post, it seemed a lil bit like a blame like you said but i wanted to catch the attention to discuss the issue and i didn't find a better way to do this than to shock a lil bit...but you bring me some hope in the way you expressed your self! but still, the US govern the world, in the sens they could do whatever they want with it... but what's your positiopn on this WOD, i do not recall one of your post??