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.
No problem, it gives people a chance to comment on absurd ideas like the one he proposed. Which, unfortunately, are popular with a lot of people. Even those on this forum.
Even among so called conservatives on this forum.
I had a mini flame war with so called conservative (an oldtimer here) the other day as he defended the welfare state while claiming to oppose it. It never ceases to amaze me.
No, it's not.
Oh, now that is definately a personal attack! I guess you potheads want to name the tune, but not pay the fiddler, huh?
Shall we just go back and forth now like a couple of school kids?
I prefer to think of it as decrementing the New Deal.
Your empire could be lost by mistaking one letter for another.
Most of us also realize that all you are here for is your "one-on-one". You are little more than a disruptor, and deserve to be treated as such.
Well, it kinda comes down to what is more harmful. Having a few dopers around (which we already do), or the wholesale slaughter of the Constitution?
The cure is much worse than the "disease".
I prefer to think of it as decrementing the New Deal.
VERY nice!
Laughable. I took you on and won in Survey: Nation's Drug Use Increases.
Wow, I never thought of that! You're absolutely right! They're all too busy layin' around getting stoned to care about much of anything.
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