Is This Sensible?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45674260
In the light of a recent proclamation that dope is worse than booze for teens, are Canada right to encourage drug taking?

[mushroom25]

I guess their national anthem is now "ohhh man Canada"?

[EDDIE51]

Your never going to stop it. So you may as well legalise it and make money out of taxing it. Anyway all evidence shows that cannabis is FAR less harmful than tobacco. If tobacco was just being 'discovered' there is not a hope in hell it would be legal. Same applies to alcohol .

[spathiphyllum]

"Canadian adults will be able to purchase and consume the drug from federally licensed producers. "


Teens??

[spathiphyllum]

The only people to loose out on this are the police force who use cannabis to help up their arrests. It's an easy one, it smells and is obvious to detect.

[mushroom25]

//all evidence shows that cannabis is FAR less harmful than tobacco. //

pardon my ignorance but can you smoke cannabis without cutting it with tobacco? wouldn't it blow your heid off?

[ToraToraTora]

eddie, cannabis is mostly taken with tobacco is it not? Anyway by dramatically increasing gateway drug usage they will be increasing hard drug usage too and associated problems.

[Peter Pedant]

// are Canada right to encourage drug taking?//

um I think that is....is Canada.....

so decriminalising something encourages it? - righto! as someone is given to exclaiming

so the gay legislation of 1967 encouraged people (men) to kiss each other in public and they er werent doing so before ?

and the suicide act - on the day that was decriminalised - there were herds of people throwing themselves off building crying
'good bye cruel world! I have waited a life time to do this!' (*)

yeah - righto!

(*) having a shakespeare day today - sozza. altho the odd ABer will wonder - who he den? dead white person or somefing ?

[retrocop]

//
//(*) having a shakespeare day today - sozza.//

Mmmmmm...... Much ado about nothing seems to fit the bill.

[ToraToraTora]

PP, KLAXON, "so" - alert!

[spathiphyllum]

"pardon my ignorance but can you smoke cannabis without cutting it with tobacco? wouldn't it blow your heid off?"

Yes you can, and it depends what strain / strength it was surely?

People can eat marijuana also, it's not a smoke only product and that's what a lot of people are ignorant to. You can't legalise it but make it illegal to smoke. Most people who use it medicinally will take oil capsules or ingest it. Not smoke it. When it's eaten and not smoked there is literally 0 negative side affects for adults. It can impair child and teens brains though. But they're talking about adults.

[Peter Pedant]

oh my God here is Macbeth having a cannabit hang over obviously

"A heavy summons lies like lead upon me,
And yet I would not sleep: merciful powers,
in me the cursed thoughts that nature
Gives way to in repose! ..."

[ToraToraTora]

I think PP is on the Bob already!

[spathiphyllum]

"gateway drug usage"


Known fact, biggest gateway drug, is alcohol. Alcohol leads to cigarettes, to party drugs such as MDMA, cocaine..

If you think someone smoking a joint will then go sniff a fat slug of coke and take some heroin then you have been misinformed

[Old_Geezer]

They aren't encouraging it, they are accepting it and taking more control. Seems a good attempt at improving the situation to me. A swing towards realism.

[Rockrose]

Their country their choice.

[Prudie]

"When it's eaten and not smoked there is literally 0 negative side affects for adults" that is such utter carp, I saw lots of young people go doolally from eating dope cake (and smoking joints' and that was in the days when it was far weaker). Cannabis can be so dangerous for those psychologically inclined to anxiety already, I don't understand why this is overlooked. Should never be legalised, I feel quite strongly about that.

[AuntLydia]

spath //Known fact, biggest gateway drug, is alcohol. Alcohol leads to cigarettes, to party drugs such as MDMA, cocaine.//

Rubbish.

[ToraToraTora]

AL, bang on, standard drug dealer talk.

[AuntLydia]

Tora he's not drug dealer he's a journalist ;-)

[emmie]

its their choice, i am not sure its a good one, but they must live with the consequences.