Gives me the Tuesday Nightmares something chronic, mind. It’s like HP Lovecraft is in charge of my dreams.
I’m growing my own right now!
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In case anyone misses the Rob Ford craziness, his brother Doug is in the running to be premier of Ontario in June.
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The Le Dain commission (1972) was on the “non-medical use of drugs”. It concluded cannabis should be legal like alcohol. And to monitor and review other drugs.
The Canadian Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs (2002) went further: legal like alcohol, age limit 16. It was never legislation, so hard to tell if it would be as bad as what we’re getting in (maybe) July.
Why not legalize all drugs? By keeping distribution (and I assume production) in the hands of criminals, decriminalizing possession just ensures criminals get rich.
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And that always reminds me of a story in Omni magazine: The Mickey Mouse Olympics.
To be clear, though, on July 1, pot will become legal, not decriminalized. There is a subtle, but important difference. When pot is decriminalized, police will not charge you for smoking or possessing it, but there is no legal way to grow it or sell it for non-medical use. So, even now, when pot has been decriminalized in Vancouver for some time, its production and sales are largely controlled by biker gangs and it is often grown in dangerous grow-op houses. Full legalization can’t come soon enough.
And I’m glad @SeamusBellamy mentioned insite. That and other harm reduction centres. Their positive impacts are profound. It angers me that these sorts of places are not replicated throughout the world where we see addiction problems.
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Wait… he’s dead? Someone start a thread!
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I am very, very sorry and I promise never to do it again.
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Oh no, please do! We love this old running gag!
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I will be lurking in the shadows, looking for my opportunity to pay it forward.
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