<strong>Written By:</strong> rearguard
<strong>Date:</strong> 2007-10-01 11:55:34
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Since then, the number of people arrested for smoking pot has jumped dramatically in several Canadian cities, in some cases jumping by more than one third.

Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa and Halifax all reported increases of between 20 and 50 per cent in 2006 of arrests for possession of cannabis, compared with the previous year.

As a result thousands of people were charged with a criminal offence that, under the previous Liberal government, was on the verge of being classified as a misdemeanour.

Police forces said many young people were under the impression that the decriminalization bill had already passed and were smoking up more boldly than they've ever done before.

Mr. Clement says his government wants to clear up the uncertainty

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The 'war on drugs' like the war on communism, and war on terrorism, are all a sham.

The only important wars are the war on poverty and the war on ignorance. A victory in them would go a long way in eliminating the first three.

   

"There's also a health-care cost element to suggesting to young people that using illicit drugs is OK, the minister said. "The fact of the matter is they're unhealthy," Mr. Clement said."

Unhealthy? So being 'unhealthy' is to be a crime is it? Well then, let's see people who eat french fries and ice cream tossed in prison for it!

   

If we banned all the things on the market that are unhealthy it would be a long list including tobacco and liquour. Why do I think he would consider that interference in the "free market?"

There are far better ways of dealing with drug problems than simply creating more criminals. However, creating more criminals creates a whole new market for the private sector such as private prisons.

   

It also raises the 'illicit' drug industries profits significantly, and creates incentives to produce and sell as much as possible. It also gives governments a needed excuse to increase indoctrination into its various para-military forces, which is something that we definitely don't want or need.

Look at that shit hole Burma, that's where Harper will take us if we let him.

   

Amazing how you still get charged for a joint in this country.

   

what I see as amazing, truely amazing is hope we get sniped at some here on this some there on that and damned few missed in between.
As a nation, as a people we have allowed ourselves to be come powerless by being propagandised.

To day the sentence was handed down on the tainted blood scandal and guess what?

those in positions of power, once again get off scot free





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"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."

William Blake

   

"To day the sentence was handed down on the tainted blood scandal and guess what?"

Yeah, the outcome was completely predictable.

   

Paul Martin Flashback: 83 kilos of Cocaine<br />
<a href="http://www.lufa.ca/news/news_item.asp?NewsID=4769">http://www.lufa.ca/news/news_item.asp?NewsID=4769</a><br />
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Had that boat been anyone else's ... well, they'd be doing hard time for sure.

   

Diogenes,

As I listened to the outcome of that trial and thought of ALL the "legal" drugs
that harm people trusting in their safety I sneered at Tony Clement's comments
and the Harper parties' sociopathic policies.

How many legal drug suppliers that murder actually end up in prision? I don't
beleive in the death penalty but China had it right when they severley (executed
him) diciplined the minister that was taking bribes from the pharmaceutical
companies.

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"The most sustainable product is the one you never bought in the first place."
Alex Steffan

   

4Canada
I'm hip to what you say and you may recall I've possted my rants about the war on (some) drugs

My upbring was heavily laden with resect for the law, do the right thing and morality
and yet i see little of those qualities in the courts, relgion
politics or police and far less in the lugans who sport the aforementioned

I know of two men, friends that are so affected with all the bullshit and economics (another scam0 that they heve confessesed to me their serious thoughts of suicide.

I may yet use my connections to acquire a tool Ed Deak once used as a soldier
Why is it so wrong to "take the law into your own hands" when the law is corrupt?
Doea the commandmenr "Thou shall not kill!" not extend to ALL killers?

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"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."

William Blake