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It's time to legalize pot
Sentinel Review ^ | 9/5/2002

Posted on 09/06/2002 8:59:47 AM PDT by MrLeRoy

It's enough for a big thumbs up ... or a big light up, if you prefer.

Canada should legalize marijuana use by adults, a Senate committee recommended Wednesday. The report comes on the heels of a two-year study of public policy relating to pot.

The present system of prohibition on marijuana just doesn't work, the committee found. Obviously, the committee learned something from early 20th-century history, when alcohol was prohibited in the United States. Then, prohibition simply gave gangsters a product to move and people to shoot.

Instead of the current system that penalizes people for having small quantities of pot on them, there should instead be a regulated system for marijuana, perhaps like our current system for alcohol, the committee determined.

"Scientific evidence overwhelmingly indicates that cannabis is substantially less harmful than alcohol and should be treated not as a criminal issue but as a social and health issue," said Senator Pierre Claude Nolin, the committee chair.

It's true that taking pot still involves the harmful intake of smoke, which the committee recognized. But, as the committee pointed out, it's more of a health issue than anything else.

In addition, making pot legal would clear the way for our police to tackle other, more harmful crimes relating to the public good. Really, would you rather see a pot smoker or a child molester behind bars?

Whether the federal government will ever adopt the Senate recommendations is up in the air. Hopefully the feds won't throw up a smokescreen on this to cloud the issue, and goes ahead with legalization.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: marijuana; pot; wod; wodlist
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To: MrLeRoy
It seems that alloysteel is a troll.

No problem, it gives people a chance to comment on absurd ideas like the one he proposed. Which, unfortunately, are popular with a lot of people. Even those on this forum.

41 posted on 09/06/2002 9:57:42 AM PDT by Protagoras
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To: Dead Corpse
I thought the mauve was the JBT in-color this season.
42 posted on 09/06/2002 9:57:55 AM PDT by Dakmar
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To: Dakmar
Come on now. We all know that basic black is the JBT's favorite color. Especially for all those early morning ballet dances they do.
43 posted on 09/06/2002 10:01:50 AM PDT by Dead Corpse
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To: Dakmar
There will never be a shortage of people who feel they have a right your money.

Even among so called conservatives on this forum.

I had a mini flame war with so called conservative (an oldtimer here) the other day as he defended the welfare state while claiming to oppose it. It never ceases to amaze me.

44 posted on 09/06/2002 10:02:37 AM PDT by Protagoras
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To: MrLeRoy
"It's Time To Legalize Pot"

No, it's not.

45 posted on 09/06/2002 10:03:19 AM PDT by MEGoody
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To: ThomasJefferson
doublethink

Orwell knew what he wrote about, IMHO
46 posted on 09/06/2002 10:04:08 AM PDT by SkyRat
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To: ThomasJefferson
I do believe they refer to that as a "logical disconnect". It happens in all different kinds of fundamentalism.
47 posted on 09/06/2002 10:04:14 AM PDT by Dead Corpse
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To: Dead Corpse
"Sorry if you took offense to me assuming your tu-tu was pink."

Oh, now that is definately a personal attack! I guess you potheads want to name the tune, but not pay the fiddler, huh?

48 posted on 09/06/2002 10:05:06 AM PDT by Destructor
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To: MEGoody
So sorry. But, Yes it most certainly is.

Shall we just go back and forth now like a couple of school kids?

49 posted on 09/06/2002 10:05:14 AM PDT by Dead Corpse
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To: Destructor
If I really wanted to get personal, I would take it off-forum. Unlike you WODDIES who just jump right in.
50 posted on 09/06/2002 10:06:17 AM PDT by Dead Corpse
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To: Dead Corpse
We can if you like, but I still say it's not time. It's never time to legalize something that is harmful that is already illegal.
51 posted on 09/06/2002 10:08:40 AM PDT by MEGoody
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To: Dead Corpse
Well, at least you have more guts than most of your kind. Not many will dare go one-on-one with Destructor!
53 posted on 09/06/2002 10:10:35 AM PDT by Destructor
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To: MEGoody
It's never time to legalize something that is harmful that is already illegal.

So to take the alcohol prohibition back was a mistake? I hope I'll be seeing you on the next anti-alcohol meeting then.
54 posted on 09/06/2002 10:10:51 AM PDT by SkyRat
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To: MrLeRoy
It's an incremental step to SOME of its supporters. What of it?

I prefer to think of it as decrementing the New Deal.

55 posted on 09/06/2002 10:13:06 AM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: Destructor
It's not that they don't dare. It's that they don't care.

Your empire could be lost by mistaking one letter for another.

Most of us also realize that all you are here for is your "one-on-one". You are little more than a disruptor, and deserve to be treated as such.

56 posted on 09/06/2002 10:13:51 AM PDT by Dead Corpse
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To: MEGoody
It's never time to legalize something that is harmful that is already illegal.

Well, it kinda comes down to what is more harmful. Having a few dopers around (which we already do), or the wholesale slaughter of the Constitution?

The cure is much worse than the "disease".

57 posted on 09/06/2002 10:16:14 AM PDT by Dead Corpse
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To: tacticalogic; Jimer
It's an incremental step to SOME of its supporters. What of it?

I prefer to think of it as decrementing the New Deal.

VERY nice!

58 posted on 09/06/2002 10:17:46 AM PDT by MrLeRoy
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To: Destructor
Not many will dare go one-on-one with Destructor!

Laughable. I took you on and won in Survey: Nation's Drug Use Increases.

59 posted on 09/06/2002 10:21:30 AM PDT by MrLeRoy
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To: Dead Corpse
"It's not that they don't dare. It's that they don't care."

Wow, I never thought of that! You're absolutely right! They're all too busy layin' around getting stoned to care about much of anything.

60 posted on 09/06/2002 10:22:53 AM PDT by Destructor
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