Canadian adults overwhelmingly support legal pot
A new poll suggests Canada may have reached the tipping point and a 66-per-cent majority favours legalizing marijuana…
The prohibition and a 40-year-long “War on Drugs” have led to pot being more widely accessible, taxpayers considerably poorer, gangs richer and thousands upon thousands of otherwise law-abiding citizens branded “criminal.”
Another 50,000 or so Canadians are busted every year for possession; throw in 20,000 or so traffickers and producers and this so-called war is costing us as much as $400 million annually in law enforcement, court and corrections.
Bearing in mind a million dollars a year buys roughly 12 new cops, 14 teachers or public health nurses, ask yourself: Couldn’t all that money be better spent..?
Across the country today, more and more people agree.
Conducted Dec. 13 by Toronto-based Forum Research Inc. and released Tuesday, the latest poll…showed that residents of B.C. were the most likely to support pot-law reform, with 73 per cent wanting change.
Quebec had the lowest support for reforms at 61 per cent…
Who’s leading the way? Those aged 55 to 64.
The War on Drugs has been a useless waste of taxpayer dollars – in Canada, in the United States, in any nation that chose to waste their efforts supporting morality instead of simple science.
RTFA for a great deal of research and reference to other nations that have walked away from another unproductive war.
How about licensed without endorsement? Also if the penalties now or future taxation were based on concentration of THC rather than on weight of material then we could avoid the production of that scary sticky grown under lights hydroponic…. For the spiritualist: Does tobacco use say no to flood trace out the feet and marijuana say no to the flood trace channels out the hands?
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January 19, 2012 at 10:59 am