Marijuana, What are your thoughts?

[lone wolf]

That may not work for several reasons. First of all the largest number of users are under the legal age to drink. I doubt that they would be allowed MJ instead. Second, taxing it would make it expensive. Who would pay for taxed MJ when they could get untaxed MJ for a lower price? Third, legalizing MJ would add one more legal drug that would be freely available to Canadians. Given that legal drugs are the biggest problem
Canada has that might not be the best idea.

For a lot of folks, most of the enjoyment comes in getting away with something. For them, when the thrill is gone, so are they.

Taxes would be considerably less an additional cost than dealer mark-up added to the hospitalization costs to counter the stuff they rub in to make it go farther.

Decriminalization, regulation and availability would kill all those profits that attract organized criminals - thus eliminating much need for end users to commit crimes in order to generate funds.

Addiction is a medical issue ... not a legal one.

 

[Cliffy]

One does not have to mainline to know it is wrong. Every try base jumping? People do it even though it is a crazy stunt. Why take a risk that me kill you just for fun. If you need drugs (any mind altering substance) to have fun you are a very sick puppy.

Comparing smoking pot to base jumping is just plain idiotic. There is no risk of death and very little of illness. I haven't smoked pot in thirty years and haven't drank alcohol in over 40. But pot is a very useful medicinal tool in dealing with a number of medical issues and if (knock on wood) I ever get cancer, I will be doing pot as part of my cure.

As I said before, if you ever do pharmaceuticals when you are sick so that you feel better, then you really have no right to knock those who smoke pot to feel better.
"Reality is for those who can't handle drugs." - Furry Freak Brothers

 

[ironsides]

So it is a mild stimulant/drug it is still a drug. You keep denying it, but it does cause driving deaths just like alcohol, maybe not as much but they do happen.


We already have attracted crime, and yes addiction is a medical issue that should be treated as such. Get the law more involved with enforcement and stricter punishments for suppliers and sellers.

 

[lone wolf]

So it is a mild stimulant/drug it is still a drug. You keep denying it, but it does cause driving deaths just like alcohol, maybe not as much but they do happen.


We already have attracted crime, and yes addiction is a medical issue that should be treated as such. Get the law more involved with enforcement and stricter punishments for suppliers and sellers.

Decriminalized and regulated, there would be few suppliers and sellers who would compete with taxed product. Obviously there will be some ... but then there are bootleggers too. Throw a BIG book at them....

 

[darkbeaver]

Bar Sinister;1233751]That may not work for several reasons.

First of all the largest number of users are under the legal age to drink.

I wonder if you would be so kind as to give us a link?

Given that legal drugs are the biggest problem
Canada has that might not be the best idea.

This is where the drug war money logically has to go to save the vast majority of lives, that's common logic of course, it is the uncommon deviant logic that has ensured for decades that this will never be the case. A further remedy with respect to big pharmas lethal trade in proven killing drugs and the millions of addicted customers would be to seriously clean out the national medicine cabinet which for the most part are ineffectual if not very dangerous and destructive to the human body.
As riddled as the legal history of corporate practice is with conspiracy both theory and proven, it would seem to me that the greatest good could be done addressing the murder committed in the open by big pharma.
Arrests and convictions for cannabis even if increased one hundred fold would do absolutely nothing to curb drug related damage and expense to society.

 

[darkbeaver]

Completely legal same as cabbage and rutabaga.

 

[mt_pockets1000]

A real Tempest in a tea POT aren't ya?

 

[pfezziwig]

Legalize it and tax the hell out of it

Make it a controlled substance like alcohol and tobacco. It will save the government a lot of money policing it and generate a lot of revenue.

Might even get lower usage rates in the long run after the novelty wears off, like Amsterdam, I believe Canada has a higher pot usage rate than Amsterdam, the pot mecca of the industrialized world !

 

[Socrates the Greek]

Canada must deal on the decriminalisation issue of pot on their on. US should stay out Canada’s rights and freedoms .

The war on drugs both the US AND Canada proved to be a useless exercise, especially when we see lately, over the boarder in Mexico, anyone who thinks that they will stop the flow of trafficking are found with their necks cut off especially Government enforcement agents.

 

[AnnaG]

*shrugs* Regulate it and tax it. Users pay.

 

[eh1eh]

*shrugs* Regulate it and tax it. Users pay.

Regulate and tax what?

 

[AnnaG]

Regulate and tax what?

lol Forgot already? Do you have the munchies, too?