To invoke a certain character from a not-so-recent stoner comedy: “If marijuana isn’t legal in the next five years, I have no faith left in humanity.” A little extreme, but I agree with the basic premise. It’s absurd that we’ve legalized alcohol and tobacco before pot. Marijuana does not lower your inhibitions, it’s not physically addictive, and it’s relatively non-toxic (not benign, but nearly impossible to overdose). By comparison, alcohol and tobacco are highly addictive, highly toxic, and alcohol lowers your inhibitions to the point where you may find yourself doing unspeakable things. Alcohol can kill you in one sitting if you’re not careful, and the more you consume the less careful you become. By this comparison alone, it’s foolish not to legalize and tax marijuana as a recreational drug. Legalization has the support of several former Canadian attorney generals, as well as an international panel of political figures that recently sent a memo to our federal government explaining why criminalization of marijuana doesn’t work. Moreover, mandatory minimums are now becoming a reality in Canada for something less dangerous than what is already legal and available to consume. Mandatory minimums strip judges of their judgment and they throw individual circumstances of each legal case out the window. They will also clog the justice system to a point where these laws become ineffective. We can make so much more money off of legalization, rather than the criminalization of marijuana, with economic benefits spreading to many sectors of society other than just the criminal justice sector. And it has to be legalized – not just decriminalized – because that money needs to be taxed so that all of Canada can reap the benefits, and it would also take marijuana out of the hands of dangerous drug cartels operating in Canada. All of these reasons, and many more, lead me to one conclusion… —Legalize It
This article appears in Mar 8-14, 2012.
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As long as it’s illegal in the US it’ll be illegal here.
Anyone whose taken a look at the issue will agreee with you OP, but it’s bigger than the health effects and the tax dollars. It’s politics
I finally got around to watching that “Run from the Cure” documentary that someone posted on here a while back. It’s about the guy in rural Nova Scotia who grew pot, made THC oil out of it and gave it away for free to his neighbors who suffered from cancer. He claims that it kills cancer cells. Watch it before you cry bullshit. He says he made the discovery after he put the oil on his skin cancer spots, and they went away.
I tend to believe it because he gained diddly from the whole thing, as far as I can tell. He spent money and time and gave away the stuff for free. He’s serving time right now, 5 years I believe. Seems like a lot to go through just for a little bit of fame. The documentary isn’t even for sale, it’s also free.
bu-bu-bu…but.. but the TIMBER industry!
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Does smoking dope cause you to not format your writing into paragraphs?
Jesus, dood. I had to read the comments to find out what the Bitch was.
Wp
Got the thumbs-down-of-doom by two potheads, I see. Lols
I love the thumbs thing. Pure passive-aggressive dickheadery!
I especially love when potheads get all sciemcy by lecturing us how hemp can save the world via fabric etc.
If you want to smoke it to get high, just say that.
I agree it’s stupid that weed is illegal. Just be honest, put down the hackey sack and Phish mp3s, amd fess up to your jones.
Amirite?
More thumbs down?
Awwww.
Wp
They need a thumb in the ass button. Fo reals.
I totally agree op. Alcohol and cigarettes not only ruins the lives of those who are addicted to them but also the lives of family, friends and strangers. How many innocent people are killed every year from drunk drivers? How many non smokers who live with smokers die or develop lung cancer? Too many.
wen big brother finds a way to tax it to death, then and only then, will it be made legal to buy and use.
Face it OB, there is a Christian fundamentalist running amuck in our country, who feels morally compelled to force his values on the rest of the population. This is the reason that religion has no place in politics. We are no better than any other wackadoo religious country. That sociopath piece of shit has ruined this country, balling up democracy as we know it and tossing it out with the trash. Why pay attention to the rest of the world, your own countries doctors, supreme court justices, lawyers, sociologists, professors, police, and all other experts? You just need to accept Jesus my friend, he’s our new rudder.
I vote Schwarzenegger for PM!
he’d have pot legalized in under a year.
Santorum reminds me of harper… bat-shit crazy, right wing tyrant.
As a long-term regular user of marijuana, I totally disagree with you OB. I DO NOT want to see it legalized here in Canda. EVER. Decriminalized, maybe, but certainly not legalized. Tabbacco is so horrible for you because of all the additives in it, most of which are required by Health Canada to prevent the rot and decay that would normally set in to a semi-dried plant product. I do not want to see my beloved MJ become a means for taxation by the government and a carrier for harsh chemicals. I like things the way they are now.
OB, maybe if you are a pot head, u should shut up about legalization…decriminalizing it is enough. Some of us like the price/quality that’s available without government regulation.
And there is such thing as highly functioning addicts, some of whom you would never know just smoked up, btw (true chronics). Each person uses it for their own personal reasons, not just to get high. It only makes me “normal” now-whatever that is.
I find it helps my arthritis, my chronic pain from a car accident( I was rear-ended & sober), eases my anxiety, and makes me much more tolerable to be around.
I still hold a very good full time job, have almost no debt and very few bills. I don”t drink alcohol, and have never smoked a cigarette. (And we have LOTS of groceries.)
So leave my tokes alone….
um…. never wrong….
if it were legalized, I’m pretty sure they would need a VERY minimal amount of preservatives in that shit…
dude, it’s going to be FLYING off the shelves.
those christian folk and their mega-churches creep me out too shitd. nice looking dog, is it yours?
I’ve had medicinal and it’s quite good.
hmm, give me some and i’ll let you know^^
Wheelie, industrial hemp is a different thing altogether than the stuff that has the thc. Hemp is the stuff that George Washington grew and it was used ⩬ to the way flax is made into linen. It has been hypothesized that industrial hemp is cheaper than lumber (quicker to grow) and as a solution to clear cutting forests.
You don’t want industrial hemp anywhere near medicinal ∵ it could make it ineffective if they crossbred. In the US, industrial hemp is illegal to grow, and every spool I’ve seen (I check) is imported from Canada.
Two different arguments—three if you split off the thc kind into medicinal and recreational for legalization. No wonder it’s hard to form a coalition!
Follow the money. Who is lobbying against it? Pharmaceuticals, Alcohol and Tobacco companies. Why would they do that? Think about it!
PS: I’ve heard that the medicinal grade available in Canada is shwag to begin with then irradiated.
Yeah PG, she’s my old girl. 13 this year I think.
saweet, i love old dogs. our hound will be 13 in august
She’s one of a kind, PG. 🙂
I don’t smoke or drink so, go ahead, legalize marijuana because I don’t do that either. I’m mellow enough.