Marijuana Legalization Y/N and why?

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

With Cannabis set to be Legal in Canada by July of 2018, I'd like to ask members to state where they stand (Yes or No) and why and then leave it at that.

No debate or thumbs up or down. Just a consensus of what you think in one post, for or against.

Wanna comment?
Can you restrict it to one post without debate?

Yes or No?

Why?

 

[bill barilko]

FYI-it's all settled.

 

[WLDB]

Yes - I think people should be allowed to do whatever they want with their own bodies whether it’s a good or bad thing.

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

FYI-it's all settled.

I know. This was really just a question for the folks here. I'm not drafting a private members bill. LOL
I guess you're not interested in commenting on it. Thanks.

Yes.
I agree, but I don't think we should legalize all drugs. Pot is no worse than alcohol, I'd argue that it might be less worse. The change in the law should have come long ago.

 

[Murphy]

I'm good with it.

 

[Scooby]

The gov't is simply making the public safer by controlling the supply. Plus they are taking a cut of the proceeds.

So Yes

Personally, I see the use of pot less damaging that alcohol does with it's way of making some people aggressive or depressed. I hope pot legalization reduces the consumption of alcohol and other drugs, we'll see.

 

[bill barilko]

This is my comment-the same I've made before when someone posted the same question.

 

[White_Unifier]

With Cannabis set to be Legal in Canada by July of 2018, I'd like to ask members to state where they stand (Yes or No) and why and then leave it at that.

No debate or thumbs up or down. Just a consensus of what you think in one post, for or against.

Wanna comment?
Can you restrict it to one post without debate?

Yes or No?

Why?

I oppose the legalization of the selling or consumption of recreational marijuana due to the addictive nature of the drug among other reasons. I could accept the legalization of prescription marijuana (which is already here) and I could even accept allowing a person to bring his own prescription marijuana across the border as long as he has a prescription to show for it or else we would just confiscate it and maybe charge a fine.

Now, if we absolutely insist of legalizing it, then I'd say that any marijuana shop should be allowed to advertise its existence online only and should not be allowed to advertise its existence even on the outside of the shop (not even by an open sign). It should also be legally required to operate behind a front business (and only the online advertisement would be allowed to give the address and describe how to find it). Also, a person should be legally prohibited from showing or consuming marijuana in public but we could allow a marijuana shop to let its clients consume the drug on premises. besides that, a person could consume it at home or on some other private property, but not in public. Make it a fine-able offence if we see or smell it in public.

Also, the shop would need to see the person's passport before it could sell to him. He could go to a passport office to have an abstinence contract with the state stamped into his passport for the validity of the passport. If the shop sees that stamp in his passport, it would not be allowed to sell any recreational marijuana to him. That way, an addict who is trying to quit could go to a passport office and get that contract stamped into his passport to make it more difficult for himself to access the drug. It would be like the gambler who goes to the casino and requests to be banned for a year. Alternatively, he could just not get a passport. That too would prevent him from accessing the drug. After all, there is no law in Canada requiring a person to obtain a passport. But if for any reason he needs to acquire one, then he could request to sign the abstinence contract that would be stamped into his passport to ban any shop from selling to him.

That's just my brainstorm for now.

 

[Curious Cdn]

This is my comment-the same I've made before when someone posted the same question.

What are those? Autopsied brains of potheads?

 

[bill barilko]

What are those? Autopsied brains of potheads?

Since you're unable to recognise quality weed you're disqualified from commenting further-take a seat in the back with the other drooling old dotards.

 

[Hoid]

Yes.

I am tired of paying for making it illegal. I'm only sorry they have decided to make a cash cow out of it instead of making it readily and cheaply available to everybody and especially the people who need it for pain.

As far as I can tell they are selling it for more than the black market sells it for.

Because Canada.

 

[Murphy]

You must be talking about medical marijuana. Health Canada controls the production and sale of medical marijuana. Prices for recreational marijuana have not been set by the government because there isn't a market yet.

Here is one medical marijuana producer. email them and ask how they set the prices. $8 to $12 per gram.

http://www.peacenaturals.com

 

[Hoof Hearted]

I'm hoping the age limit for this garbage is 21 years old and older. It can screw with young, developing minds.

 

[Johnnny]

No

The government is going to just tax itself out of the market, solving nothing.

The resulting awareness campaigns/commercials treating it the same as alcohol are full of too much misinformation which will justify some already stupid assumpstions people have of it.

It's been practically unofficially legal for awhile now

....

The whole thing is a farce

 

[Danbones]

12 bucks a gram and no volume discounts is PURE robbery
( top drawer "you can't tell its out door) goes for $150 an OZ on the street.
($5.37 a gram X 28 )

Making people pay for it when its prescribed medicine (especially those on disability!!!) is beyond criminal and should carry the same penalty as any other genocidal tendencies do.

I have seen pot prescribed in amounts that exceed a disability income completely.
( ..and that means No rent, no food, no clothes, no nothing)

 

[pgs]

No

The government is going to just tax itself out of the market, solving nothing.

The resulting awareness campaigns/commercials treating it the same as alcohol are full of too much misinformation which will justify some already stupid assumpstions people have of it.

It's been practically unofficially legal for awhile now

....

The whole thing is a farce

Talking about misinformation , I was listening to an RCMP drug awareness expert on the affects of pot .He stated there is no way to positively test for pot impairment . Then went on to proclaim that pot related deaths on Colorado and Washington roads had increased 70 % since legalization . With no way to positively test how could he know that ?

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Yes. I'm speaking generally, and actually for the U.S. It ain't my affair what Canada does.

I say make it legal because there's no point in keeping it illegal. Enforcement attempts produce costs and harms far beyond those that use of marijuana produce.

Regulate it about like alcohol.

 

[DaSleeper]

Yes, because with it I might sleep better <Tinitis>
The process to set up Medical marijuana client is too damn slow and complicated

 

[Danbones]

Talking about misinformation , I was listening to an RCMP drug awareness expert on the affects of pot .He stated there is no way to positively test for pot impairment . Then went on to proclaim that pot related deaths on Colorado and Washington roads had increased 70 % since legalization . With no way to positively test how could he know that ?

...as they say:
You can't trust a dope dealer or a cop

Yes, because with it I might sleep better <Tinitis>
The process to set up Medical marijuana client is too damn slow and complicated

..and expensive in the end for a road side weed.

Tell the cops that pills are the leading killer these days...
tell them they ought to get on that

 

[Durry]

Yes. I'm speaking generally, and actually for the U.S. It ain't my affair what Canada does.

I say make it legal because there's no point in keeping it illegal. Enforcement attempts produce costs and harms far beyond those that use of marijuana produce.

Regulate it about like alcohol.

My vote is Yes, for the same reasons mentioned above.