According to the paper, the Canadian senate thinks people over 16 should be allowed to smoke marijuana.
My first thought was, "It's about time."
My second thought was, "Wow, I can't believe a group of people with an average age of 64.5 made this decision."
The article goes on to quote detractors of this idea, who say, "There is no such thing as safe recreational use of drugs." Well, if you're going to use that as an argument, it looks like it's time to make alcohol and nicotine illegal too. God knows they kill/harm a LOT more people than pot ever could. David Griffin, executive director of the Canadian Police Association, called the senate's report "a back-to-school gift for drug pushers." What an idiot! The last thing drug pushers want is for marijuana to be legalized, because that means it can be sold in stores, which means the pushers would be out of a job!
All that being said, I think they should legalize marijuana, but they should make the legal age 18, and do the same for cigarettes. While I believe 16-year-olds are generally fairly worldly and not idiots, they are still very susceptible to peer pressure, which could cause them to develop a really filthy, harmful habit (smoking cigarettes), or to use pot unwisely.
These thoughts sponsored, by the way, by someone who has never smoked a joint in his life and has no interest in doing so.
My first thought was, "It's about time."
My second thought was, "Wow, I can't believe a group of people with an average age of 64.5 made this decision."
The article goes on to quote detractors of this idea, who say, "There is no such thing as safe recreational use of drugs." Well, if you're going to use that as an argument, it looks like it's time to make alcohol and nicotine illegal too. God knows they kill/harm a LOT more people than pot ever could. David Griffin, executive director of the Canadian Police Association, called the senate's report "a back-to-school gift for drug pushers." What an idiot! The last thing drug pushers want is for marijuana to be legalized, because that means it can be sold in stores, which means the pushers would be out of a job!
All that being said, I think they should legalize marijuana, but they should make the legal age 18, and do the same for cigarettes. While I believe 16-year-olds are generally fairly worldly and not idiots, they are still very susceptible to peer pressure, which could cause them to develop a really filthy, harmful habit (smoking cigarettes), or to use pot unwisely.
These thoughts sponsored, by the way, by someone who has never smoked a joint in his life and has no interest in doing so.
posted by Claude at
1:38 PM
