What’s all the fuss about? Politicians across the country are dusting off their bongs and running to the media for a photo op, clamouring to be the next to prove their street cred by saying they smoked marijuana in their distant pasts.
So what?
Who under 60 hasn’t passed the dutchie to the left- (or right-) hand side at least once in their lives? It’s a rite of passage these days, something most try as teenagers or in college or university, like or don’t like, and move on.
Reefer madness is nothing new. It’s not for everyone. But it’s not destroying the country.
About 10.7 per cent of us report using it in the last year, according to 2010 figures supplied by the Canadian Alcohol and Drug Use Monitoring Study.
Good on Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau for bringing the conversation to the national forefront once and for all.
The conversation about legalization or decriminalization needs to happen; Canada’s police chiefs have already said they’d prefer to hand out tickets.
Local MP Bruce Hyer is right. It should be legalized and taxed, taking profits from organized crime and instead turning them over to Frito Lay, makers of Doritos.
Prohibition and the war on drugs are failures. They’re expensive and ineffective, and it’s time the millions spent to prosecute marijuana offenders is redirected elsewhere.
