Canada Goes to Pot

[S.A. Boggs]

I don't smoke weed... though I have some 30 years ago or so . ... A gateway drug?..... far as I remember any one that ever smoked weed started with a beer ... there's your gateway .

Suddenly in Canada it's become legal to huff a joint.... the fear of weed high drivers all over the roads... ? OMG ! ... new users suddenly interested in other means to get high ? ....OMG ! horse crap..

Horse crap because all the present laws never prevented the use of weed...... any one interested in it is allready using it . They are allready driving your streets high. And I don't believe for a moment that untold amounts of people are now going to suddenly say ....

" Hey... it's legal... lets smoke weed !" .... anyone with the interest is already doing it legal or not .

Some states in the United States actually have State only operated liquour store liquor sales ... like NH.... which go's against the countries monopoly laws if you ask me . Those stores are conveniently located on State and Interstate highways conveniently at every tool booth......

Latest report I've read from Canada is that only 20 % of its population has interest in smoking weed...... and they are allready doing it.

relax ..... we've got much larger problems than weed....

Larger problem then weed, yes I agree that thing about an alcohol need.
Sam

[Sandpebble]

OK... a question pertaining personal rights .....

I like my guns ...

Guns are my personal right even though the writers of the Constitution never imagined it would progress beyong the black powder single shot to a 30 rnd mag used to kill innocents....frequently .

So whats the fear of the personal rights of those who want to puff a joint .... that they may harm an innocent ? ... or themselves ? ... hmmph

[Vern Humphrey]

Really building up points to win the Byng Award, eh?

[Sandpebble]

Really building up points to win the Byng Award, eh?

Well I must say ..... you are sounding a bit sharper now that you've dropped the imbicilic Fonzanoon Wingate Troll thing .....

[Reeferman]

The trust fund kids who run our government and the clown who is our prime minister are using this and the gun grab they are pushing to get re elected next year. Got to keep the sheep stoned, stupid and happy so they can stay in power.
Progressives are a @#$&ing cancerous disease and are turning our country into a 3rd world xxxxhole.

[Vern Humphrey]

The trust fund kids who run our government and the clown who is our prime minister are using this and the gun grab they are pushing to get re elected next year. Got to keep the sheep stoned, stupid and happy so they can stay in power.
Progressives are a @#$&ing cancerous disease and are turning our country into a 3rd world xxxxhole.

They are not Progressives, they are Regressives. They are trying to regress us from a free and prosperous people into an impoverished dictatorship.

[S.A. Boggs]

In the "old" days a psychotic person was placed into a "strait" jacket and a padded room, now the person is simply "medicated" into a controlled person. Unfortunately this has to happen, otherwise the client poses a risk to self/others. Apparently under the term "recreational" politicians seek the same end...a controlled and docile population.
Sam

[Jiminvirginia]

Canada was better when it was like our 51st state.

[Reeferman]

Canada was better when it was like our 51st state.

If you Yanks don’t keep Trump in and the lunatic progressive left get the house, Senate or worse the White House then we will be like the 51st state. There is some good new happening up here as the conservatives are leading in the polls for next years federal election. But that is an eternity in politics.

[blackhawknj]

When employers find that druggies are poor workers and require drug testing with threats of dismissal.....

[Allen]

When employers find that druggies are poor workers and require drug testing with threats of dismissal.....

Right. Most employers will not tolerate any type of substance that will impair the mind of a worker. When I worked at the refinery they would give random drug test. Pot usage would get you fired along with many other drugs and pain killers even if prescription.

[mike webb]

The legalization of pot up here is supposedly being done to;
1. Stop criminal distribution of pot.
2. Regulate the age of users. (don't know how this works as underage kids have been drinking for years)
3. Public safety( controlling what is actually in the product to "protect consumers".
These are the stated motivations by the Liberal government here.
But it is really about more revenue for the bloated socialist bureaucracy here.
A coworker who uses marijuana tells me government prices are around 35% higher than his local weed distributor.
It is a whole nasty can of worms that the government didn't even think through before jumping on the legalization bandwagon.
It is a proven fact that a high percentage of those who begin consuming pot when in their early teens are damaged mentally by it. Often having problems with depression and anxiety later in life. Doctors state that teenagers brains are still developing and a steady diet of THC can alter brain chemistry for life not to mention a certain percentage who will look for a "better high" and move on to worse drugs.

[Vern Humphrey]

I have a friend, a farmer, who got a job on a drilling rig -- there's been a natural gas boom in Arkansas. He got promoted and kept getting promoted. He's now making over $100K a year. When I congratulated him, he said, "I was the only one who could pass the drug test."

[Reeferman]

The legalization of pot up here is supposedly being done to;
1. Stop criminal distribution of pot.
2. Regulate the age of users. (don't know how this works as underage kids have been drinking for years)
3. Public safety( controlling what is actually in the product to "protect consumers".
These are the stated motivations by the Liberal government here.
But it is really about more revenue for the bloated socialist bureaucracy here.
A coworker who uses marijuana tells me government prices are around 35% higher than his local weed distributor.
It is a whole nasty can of worms that the government didn't even think through before jumping on the legalization bandwagon.
It is a proven fact that a high percentage of those who begin consuming pot when in their early teens are damaged mentally by it. Often having problems with depression and anxiety later in life. Doctors state that teenagers brains are still developing and a steady diet of THC can alter brain chemistry for life not to mention a certain percentage who will look for a "better high" and move on to worse drugs.

Trump puts more thought into one of his 3am tweets than the trust fund kids and the clown did making the whole pot legislation.

[S.A. Boggs]

Having worked in psychiatric setting it is appalling to see a person on cannabis go down hill over the years, the stupefaction of their brain. Have seen too many walking dead who started out on a "harmless" substance and ALWAYS go to worse. The human mind is constantly looking for a repeat of that first high and never achieve it. It leads to death of the mind, then spirit and finally body. Nice girl I knew started out on weed at high school parties, went onto harder stuff. To support her habit became a hooker then got AIDS for her trouble. On her last day of life she got several bullets to her body and that cured her addiction. I have seen and treated my share of active addicts that death cured their addiction, by then it was too late.
Sam