Posted on 06/23/2018 5:03:45 PM PDT by Simon Green
Canadians will soon be able to order marijuana through the mail as part of the nation’s new legalization of recreational pot.
Lawmakers in the country passed the Cannabis Act earlier this week, setting the country up to regulate the market in the coming months.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Wednesday that legalization will begin on Oct. 17. The country is the second to legalize the substance nationwide, after Uruguay.
The federal minimum age for marijuana use in Canada will be 18, but some provinces are setting their own minimum age at 19, which is the drinking age in most areas. Provinces are also creating their own regulations regarding pot shops, home-growing and taxes.
Medical marijuana, which has been legal in Canada for nearly 20 years, has been available through the mail since 2013.
The country’s postal service said in a statement that it will deliver regulated recreational marijuana following the same policies, such as proof of age upon delivery, according to ABC News.
Though nine states and Washington, D.C., have legalized recreational marijuana, it is still against the law to have it delivered through the mail in the U.S.
Think about this.
The tobacco industry kills 480,000 of its best customers every year, that’s a fact.
That means that they have to addict that many and more replacements every year. Clearly, older dying smokers are being replace by younger smokers.
Teenagers often smoke because they want to imitate adults and be seen as adults. That is part of the addictive draw of tobacco.
Marijuana doesn’t have that driver.
“OK, tobacco kills 41,000 Americans that don’t even smoke........”
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That is absolute nonsense,and can’t be proven.
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The Bible says an “eye for an eye”. Meaning that the punishment should not exceed the wrong.
With relatively minimal harm or dead, I don’t believe that it is Christian and/or moral that society should inflict the far greater harm of incarceration on marijuana users.
Here you go, the health consequences of smoking, a 50 year study:
https://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/reports/50-years-of-progress/exec-summary.pdf
https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_facts/index.htm
“With relatively minimal harm...”
You haven’t read a single one of the over 150 studies proving harm.
You deflect with tobacco,something indians smoked and irrelevant to the specific issue of pot.
Read my post.
I never said there was no harm. There is harm.
You want this to be a black and white issue, it is not, it is a shades of gray issue.
With any social problem, there is a degree of harm. When a threshold of harm is reached, society finally disagrees with the harm enoyugh to act on.
My point is very simple. How can we as a society tolerate and legalize the use of tobacco while we jail people for marijuana?
That is why I point out, not as a deflection, the extreme harm of tobacco, to show our hypocrisy and immorality.
Oh,for heaven’s sake,I’ve read those things———my question isn’t about smoking deaths,it’s about second hand smoking deaths.
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OK, I repeat and quote from page 13 of 36:
https://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/reports/50-years-of-progress/exec-summary.pdf
Executive Summary: Table 1 Premature deaths caused by smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke, 1965–2014:
Cause of death:
Total Lung cancers caused by exposure to secondhand smoke -
263,000
We’re talking about different types of harm.
You speak of physical CPD, I’m talking about the conclusive peer reviewed studies of the human brain on drugs and its irreversibility
I repeat, read my post.
I said harm, that means any kind of harm.
Marijuana causes it, overuse causes more. But not enough to jail someone and cause the devastating harm of the legal system.
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