Hodor wrote:
This is a bigger load of crap than I dropped in my shitter this morning.
Oh my gosh I'm sure that's not true
Come on credit where credit is due!
Hodor wrote:
Weed is legal because a majority of Canadians think it should be. Whether or not you actually use it is just as irrelevant as your ignorant bias towards people who do.
It’s *relatively* harmless and it makes no sense to keep it illegal when so many people use it, and when the cops themselves haven’t cared for over a decade. It’s a goddamn plant. It’s legal. Its no big deal. In 5 years you won’t even bring this up at Christmas dinner anymore.
It’s funny that the people who criticize legal cannabis tend to be the ones would could use a joint or two to chill out in the first place.
Also don't bother to divine my path of reasoning here, my "ignorant bias", you are not correct. The point of my comments - to Minty btw, who chose to chop one in the clover, see above - was to point out that you guys and other voters (millennials) who jumped on the weed issue to make a decision were a huge shift for the Liberals going into the election. Come on, it's a fact, just embrace it.
I don't really want to swat this around much, but decriminalization would have effectively worked as well as legalization to address the social harms T2 pretends are only possible with floods of gubmint pot revenues and taxation. Social harms meaning the racking up of criminal convictions on petty users, and gobbling up precious law enforcement, judicial and corrections resources with bullshit dope charges. I know this and agree with you, let's not fight. The high profile "social harm repair" programs they will likely soon institute will serve as nothing more than virtue signalling and of course to fatten the ranks public sector ie: more grateful voters. So why just be a good government and "address social harms" because it's the right thing to do, when instead you can run a profitable racket at the same time? Sidebar: a poll last spring:
https://globalnews.ca/news/4199723/mari ... y-deficit/Quote:
Canadians want pot tax revenue to fund health care, not anti-drug campaigns: survey
All governments rely on streams of tax revenue that don't cost them votes. The Conservatives trimmed the GST portion from 7% to 5% to simply conform to the model their base expected of them. There is exactly 0.00% chance that they or any other future government will ever waive or further reduce the GST. And of course there is no guarantee whatsoever that some future government of any stripe won't go looking for that lost 2%, taxation being their only source of sustenance, they need it to survive. If we are willing to give it, they are willing to take it.