Man you Canadians riot like a mothefucker over the important shit. Cup losses, unconstitutional laws.
If Canadian women were not so timid riots would never take place!! Yah I blame the skirts (or the lack of lifting said skirts)!!!
I agree with the legalization of certain illegal drugs. I will always be on the side that says legalize marijuana but I still think it needs more thought. The only issue that I see with legalizing drugs such as marijuana (and I will use it as the easy example) is this..who is going to control the pricing and taxing? If left to the government then there is no doubt the cost of a single gram of weed is probably going to skyrocket. Seeing that most people are capable of growing their own I am not sure if pot is the money making resource that some think it would be if legalized. Obviously not everyone is going to have the time and the space to grow their own and those lazy ones would much prefer heading to the corner store to grab a baggy. That store bought baggy will probably end up costing double what a bag from your local dealer costs now (due to taxes, control, competition etc). So what's to stop the selling of the non government regulated weed which would probably be of much lower cost and probably even better quality? Within the realm of legalized marijuana sales there will still be a large amount of illegal selling and all that comes with it (maybe to a lesser extent?..and less is good).
I think what a lot of anti-marijuana folks miss is this. That massive amount of money that's made off of dealing marijuana (and it's a shit load of money)...it actually goes back into the economy in other sectors probably including the one that anti-marijuana bob works in. It's actually really dumb seizing the pounds and pounds of pot to get it off the street. That money lost from selling of that marijuana...where does it go? Little Suzy just lost her summer job because of that drug bust. HONESTLY....where do people think the money being made off marijuana sales are going...for the most part a very large chunk of it is staying within the economy (all money is blood money or has traces of blood on it.. just no one wants to admit it). Sometimes crimes are actually profitable for everyone. And we all know how much money a year governments throw away fighting that war that can't be won. And the counter argument that Marijuana costs tax payers a thwack load of money on healthcare costs? So full of B.S. That's the ever so easy tax dollars at waste fear machine excuse at work. I can be that machine also...taxes wasted on incriminating and trying to get marijuana off the streets far outnumber the tax dollars being spent on the health costs of marijuana use. We all can see how successful getting pot of the streets has been.
Soooo much money is being wasted and being taken out of the economy by flushing and burning pot plants and fighting the war on that drug. If not legalized a drug like marijuana should at the very least be destigmatize and seen for what it actually is. It's medicinal, it's recreational and it has a whole shit load of positive economical capabilities and there are a crap load of well respected, successful, functioning, intelligent, healthy, important figures in society who like to take a little toke here and there if not a whole lot. We still live with the propoganda from the mid century on pot smoking and pot smokers. And I won't lie... many users do feed that stereotype. But that's an easy scape goat for the anti-marijuana crowd.
