So the CONS want to Ban Alcohol and Smoking Product Sales in Canada?

[damngrumpy]

We are living the twentieth century of the booze debate, the same arguments are
being used the truth is the church and the organized criminals would love to have
booze and cigarettes and pot banned. The church wants to save your soul and
they would have more money for the collection plate, the gangs want to raise the
price of illegal booze cigarettes and pot. They compete for the same dollar friends.
It's time to admit social interaction around these substances cannot be regulated
if the people are not in favor or there is a market for the product. It will also turn
off the young voters and that can't be all bad if they lose votes

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

It's time to admit social interaction around these substances cannot be regulated
if the people are not in favor or there is a market for the product.

Isn't that basically what Colorado and Washington did?

 

[Machjo]

We are living the twentieth century of the booze debate, the same arguments are
being used the truth is the church and the organized criminals would love to have
booze and cigarettes and pot banned. The church wants to save your soul and
they would have more money for the collection plate, the gangs want to raise the
price of illegal booze cigarettes and pot. They compete for the same dollar friends.
It's time to admit social interaction around these substances cannot be regulated
if the people are not in favor or there is a market for the product. It will also turn
off the young voters and that can't be all bad if they lose votes

Funny that. I disliked alcohol before I believed in God. Strange as it might sound, when I'd learnt that the Baha'i Faith prohibited the consumption of alcohol except for medical reasons it actually attracted me more. I was 21 at the time. Funny thing is, some of my friends, while attracted to parts of the Faith, were turned off specifically by that point alone. Go figure.

 

[Sal]

It's a stupid ad. If that's all they have they are screwed. They should have vetted that ad with an average individual first.

No surprise that they didn't though.

 

[tay]

Medical marijuana users can continue to grow their own pot: court




Judge has granted medical marijuana patients and producers exception from new laws set to take effect April 1st, until a proper constitutional challenge can be heard.




The Conservative government's plan to move medical marijuana plants out of patients' basements and into commercial facilities was dealt a significant setback Friday, after a Federal Court judge ruled anyone already licensed to grow the drug may continue to do so.
Judge Michael Manson issued an injunction exempting patients who are licensed to possess or grow medical marijuana under the current rules, either for themselves or someone else, from new regulations that would have made the practice illegal.


A group of patients behind a constitutional challenge asked for an injunction to preserve the status quo until their legal case goes to trial.


The federal government announced its plans to overhaul the production of medical pot last year, arguing the current system had grown out of control and was rife with problems ranging from unsafe grow-ops to infiltration by criminals.


The new regulations restrict medical marijuana production to commercial growers, though the court injunction does not affect the new licensing system.


The plaintiffs in the lawsuit argued the updated regulations violate their right to access important medicine, because marijuana is expected to initially be more expensive under the new system. They also complained they won't have as much control over which strains of the drug they use.


The judge concluded some patients will not be able to afford marijuana if prices increase as expected.






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