If we are going to start following Canada’s lead, could we please echo them in having a strong decentralized government? You know, kinda like our founding fathers envisioned? Pretty please?
Having been burdened with the enforcement of simple possession of controlled substances.....I’d say I would much rather conduct a death investigation. Nothing ruins a young person’s future more than the presence of a illegal substance conviction on a criminal history report. We are a mature enough nation to find other ways of addressing it rather than imprisonment and punishment......aren’t we? Kudos to any jurisdiction that tries to find a better way.
Speaking of "poison." cannabis is notably non-toxic--fatal overdoses are unheard-of. Wherever it has been made legal, opioid deaths have declined.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomange.../#153601285696
Now that it has been made legal in Canada, it will be studied exhaustively, which may be bad news for Pharma and Pharma investors. After all, cannabis was medicine long before anyone thought about making obscene profits off Illness.
Even if it doesn’t turn out to be a golden age of self-medication, I think people should be allowed to indulge in any substance they like. No need to clothe it in clouds of righteousness. We shouldn’t need to defend our vices to any moral arbiters.
That's the difference between us. I don't see it as a vice, but a useful. innocuous substance, less problematic than a glass of wine. I guess anything can be a vice if it's misused.
I don't think it's a panacea, but it has helped people I know with a variety of ailments from insomnia to arthritis to post-stroke pain to the process of dying. I haven't taken the time to experiment with it much for my own issues, but I may yet.
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