Canadian's Read This!

[BobBong]

Enjoy... It's a long read...So Discuss!

[BobBong]

More...

[OniEhtRedrum781]

Sweeeeeet

[biohazard]

took a while to read, but :)

[Perp]

Hope springs eternal yet I'm afraid that Harper and the Conservatives are way too closed minded to consider decrim, let alone legalization. With all his promises of openess and whatnot that got him elected, he is proving to be the same as every other politician. He really pulled the wool over our eyes when he lowered GST by 1% (big deal, I save 10 cents everytime I buy something for $10), and raised income tax on the lowest tax brackets.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/05/03/budget-critic060503.html

My advice to everyone who wants cannabis decrim or legalized is to vote NDP, or even the Liberals were receptive to the idea of decrim. Anybody but the Conservatives, or we'll soon find ourselves vassals of the Americans, if we are not already.

[BobBong]

Hope springs eternal yet I'm afraid that Harper and the Conservatives are way too closed minded to consider decrim, let alone legalization. With all his promises of openess and whatnot that got him elected, he is proving to be the same as every other politician. He really pulled the wool over our eyes when he lowered GST by 1% (big deal, I save 10 cents everytime I buy something for $10), and raised income tax on the lowest tax brackets.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/05/03/budget-critic060503.html

My advice to everyone who wants cannabis decrim or legalized is to vote NDP, or even the Liberals were receptive to the idea of decrim. Anybody but the Conservatives, or we'll soon find ourselves vassals of the Americans, if we are not already.


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Great Advice.

[OniEhtRedrum781]

Since I'll be turning 18 in Feb, this will be my first time to actually be able to vote, and believe me, I'm making it count

[dutch.lover]

speaking of voting for the NDP, check out their pro-legalization website. http://www.endprohibition.ca/

[VaporDaddy]

Responsible Canadian marijuana users must vote at every election! This is the only way things will ever improve for us. Also call and write politicians to tell them you support decriminalization.
Just imagine growing your weed in the garden next to your tomatoes without worrying about going to jail! That would be a small slice of heaven!

[harris7]

Agreed Vape. Harper has made some troubling comments very juxtaposed to this report. Check out my Sig For more info. I've written two MP's about the issue. It's important, none of us want the Cons changing any laws on cannabis

Oh, and bob were did you get this, Do you have a PDF of it? I know some people who would be very interested in this info but i's a hassle to send it in this format

[dutch.lover]

decrim isn't the way to go though. decrim would make it legal to smoke and carry small amounts of marijuana, but it wouldn't do anything for selling or growing it. it would actually just drive the growers and sellers deeper into the black market. what we need is FULL LEGALIZATION (ideally with no taxes). DECRIMINALIZATION is NOT GOOD!!!!

[harris7]

just a note:
I DO NOT SUPPORT DECRIMALIZATION> it is not the answer it is a compromise which keeps all the harmful effects on our communities. and has the only benefit of reliving some paranoia of the smokers

[canuck grower]

That was a good short read. I think that the laws are a complete joke and many Canadians know it. I am a computer science student and a professional computer programmer. I'm also a criminal because of the plants I have growing in my closet.

WTF?

[VaporDaddy]

Bob,
I tried to print this but it prints off center cutting parts out. can you e-mail it to me? [email protected]

[harris7]

Thanks again this report will help all of us in our arguments. Seeing what our government bodies have said is very uplifting.

[IntrepidS]

Yea I voted for the NDP last election and I'll vote for them next time most likely. Those guys will lighten the laws concerning marijuana.

[BobBong]

Full legalization won't happen right away.. It's to much at one time for the government to handle. They wouldn't even know how to begin to approach "legalization" This is where decriminalization comes into play.. It's a stepping stone towards full legalization of Cannabis.

The bigger issue right now is medicinal patients , people that choose to use Cannabis over pharmaceuticals. These people that choose to treat thier illnesses with Cannabis are being considered criminals and getting criminal records for things like simple posession of Cannabis. People with MS, Glaucoma, HIV, Hep-C or Cancer are being fined, evicted, and even jailed for something as simple as medication.

So decriminalization is an essential step to actual legalization..

Canada, Stop making our sick citizens into criminals.

Bob.

[Triple-P]

communist party for me

[Harry Pot Head]

mean while Harper and CO.

are wanting this C-32

NORML.ORG CN ON: OPED: Common Sense Goes Up in Smoke (http://www.mapinc.org/norml/v07/n541/a02.htm)

[Harry Pot Head]

Plus you might want to be thinking of talking to your MP

I am going to at least send a letter to him and drop it off at his office

NORML.ORG Canada: Harper To Unveil US-Style 'War On Drugs' (http://www.mapinc.org/norml/v07/n638/a07.htm) this is what Harper is also wanting to do as well.

Following a failed US aproch

[cheeto]

damn it, just legalize the stuff, everyone has or does smoke it, even George Bush, its nothing new and absolutely nothing about our society would change if it where legal except that our prisons would empty out a lot and our country would have a random chunk of money sitting unspent (the drug war money+any taxes on corps selling pot), oh yea, and all those "evil teenagers" like myself could walk around at night stoned and finally not be bothered by cops with a hard on for little boys.

how many of our government employees, including prime ministers, smoke up?

[LXP]

Hate to say it, but any sort of change to the legality of cannabis in Canada is going to come under heavy crossfire from a lot of different groups. Having grown up on the praries where the political atmosphere is generally conservative, I can already make a short list of where the biggest whinging is going to come from; i.e. small communities of people where the the average age is over 40 and most of the people are highly religious. Sorry, I'm not trying to pick these people out, but from my own experience they're usually the ones who are most adverse to change. Decrim. as adverse as the effects may be is at least a starting point from which people can be made to see that cannabis isn't nearly as detrimental as the past century of propoganda has ingrained into them. There's a big difference from having the opinions of someone who is allowed to smoke up, and someone who gets high illegally. The only way change ever happens is by allowed trickles of greater learning conjoin and become a river.

[mikeyjo]

TheStar.com | Canada | Tories plan drug crackdown (http://www.thestar.com/article/261901)
Tories plan drug crackdown

Snippet:
THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA â?? Health Minister Tony Clement will announce the government's anti-drug strategy this week with a stark warning: â??the partyâ??s overâ?� for illicit drug users.

â??In the next few days, weâ??re going to be back in the business of an anti-drug strategy,â?� Clement told The Canadian Press.

â??In that sense, the partyâ??s over.â?�

Shortly after taking office early last year, the Conservatives decided not to go ahead with a Liberal bill to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana.

Since then, the number of people arrested for smoking pot has jumped dramatically in several Canadian cities, in some cases jumping by more than one third.

Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa and Halifax all reported increases of between 20 and 50 per cent in 2006 of arrests for possession of cannabis, compared with the previous year.

As a result thousands of people were charged with a criminal offence that, under the previous Liberal government, was on the verge of being classified as a misdemeanour.

Police forces said many young people were under the impression that the decriminalization bill had already passed and were smoking up more boldly than theyâ??ve ever done before.