Posted on 09/06/2002 8:59:47 AM PDT by MrLeRoy
It's enough for a big thumbs up ... or a big light up, if you prefer.
Canada should legalize marijuana use by adults, a Senate committee recommended Wednesday. The report comes on the heels of a two-year study of public policy relating to pot.
The present system of prohibition on marijuana just doesn't work, the committee found. Obviously, the committee learned something from early 20th-century history, when alcohol was prohibited in the United States. Then, prohibition simply gave gangsters a product to move and people to shoot.
Instead of the current system that penalizes people for having small quantities of pot on them, there should instead be a regulated system for marijuana, perhaps like our current system for alcohol, the committee determined.
"Scientific evidence overwhelmingly indicates that cannabis is substantially less harmful than alcohol and should be treated not as a criminal issue but as a social and health issue," said Senator Pierre Claude Nolin, the committee chair.
It's true that taking pot still involves the harmful intake of smoke, which the committee recognized. But, as the committee pointed out, it's more of a health issue than anything else.
In addition, making pot legal would clear the way for our police to tackle other, more harmful crimes relating to the public good. Really, would you rather see a pot smoker or a child molester behind bars?
Whether the federal government will ever adopt the Senate recommendations is up in the air. Hopefully the feds won't throw up a smokescreen on this to cloud the issue, and goes ahead with legalization.
That's it niki, bump? Oh that's right you have to bump a thread when your friends are in trouble.
Oh well maybe take some advice from a person, Mark Twain, who no doubtedly will be called a "coke fiend" or some other fiend by the revisionist Libertarians.
Better to keep your mouth shut, than open it and remove all doubt what so ever.
'Fiend' or not he did use it enough to 'promote' its 'miraculous effects'. This puts the lie to the notion that coke users are useless people.
Too bad he wasn't busted and imprisoned, I'm sure someone else who had a clearer head and a better attitude would have invented the light bulb eventually
Which is exactly what you would like to see since you do not support free speech rights for legalization advocates, as you were stating the other day.
Uh, exactly my point(gdani)
Uh not your point, IMO. Thomas and Gingrich probably tried pot one time and that was it.
You somehow saying that anybody who smoked pot is for pot is wrong, just as the misleading statistic saying 34% of Americans have tried pot(and probably the vast majority saying they thought it stunk) saying it is okay.
Actually if you look at that statistic in a business point of view, you pot advocates are woefully inept, just like your hippie brethren of the 60's, IMO.
Uh Lindbergh and Ford said great words about Hitler before 1939, they on their deathbeds I bet didn't praise Hitler, just like Edison on his deathbed didn't praise cocaine.
I am lucky that I live in the United States and not iron fisted ruled by the Libertarian pot uber alles crowd. I would be hanged for saying bad words about marijuana, IMO.
Is that why we shouldn't have free speech rights?
Please can that canard, the victim tact you are taking is not becoming, IMO.
Sheesh page 23 of the Libertarian pot lovers handbook.
When in trouble, talk like Al Sharpton
Please can that canard, the victim tact you are taking is not becoming, IMO
Why should I can it? Because you're embarassed to admit (again) that you don't think the Bill of Rights should protect those you disagree with?
Funny - coming from someone a day or two ago who was saying that legalization advocates shouldn't have free speech rights.
Just keep on posting with the Al Sharpton tact my friend, you are doing my work.
That's it? No rationalization of why. Just a hit and run "Hope they legalize soon?".
Just keep on posting with the Al Sharpton tact my friend, you are doing my work
Am I lying, Dane? Am I misrepresenting your position?
For those who would like to follow Dane's "logic" and love of the Bill of Rights themselves here's the thread I refer to.
Good night & good luck.
In any event, I think it is clear that the best public policy would be one where pot is legal for me, and illegal for everyone else. You know it's true.
As a final favour for the long-standing entertainment value you have provided to me, I will personally see to it that my revolutionary brothers process you with nylon rather than hemp.
It may be difficult since the current draft of the Enabling Act forbids possession of hemp substitutes, but there are always ways around these things.
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