Canadian's Read This!

[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.

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TheStar.com | Canada | Tories plan drug crackdown
Tories plan drug crackdown

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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.