Canada criminalizes pot again so that it can be ready to, uh, decriminalize it... again... maybe

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good ol' accurate yet misleading CNN article, perhaps?

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 22:08 (twenty years ago) link

It was never decriminalized. The only started to talk about an amendment to the law that would decriminalize it. Almost no one seems to care one way or another here, actually, only activists. Regular users are so rarely hassled that almost no one cares except for that the fines will be larger once decriminalization happens.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 22:17 (twenty years ago) link

well, is there a CBC story on this? I trust it's a bit more descriptive of what exactly is going on compared to the CNN one.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 22:18 (twenty years ago) link

Here it is.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 22:19 (twenty years ago) link

and yeah, Bryan, I know what you mean.. same thing applies in Vancouver. In fact, the decrimming this past year pissed off a lot of smokers in town because cops just looked for an excuse to fine people on the streets as opposed to just leaving them alone. But still, when a country says "it is ok to put someone in jail if someone is caught with X", that's still a precedent, whether it's casually enforced or not, and not having that precedent any longer means a lot.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 22:21 (twenty years ago) link

And since when did folks like David Malmo-Levine decide to read the Sean Carruthers fashion guide anyway? WHY DO I NOT HAVE THIS BOOK?

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 22:23 (twenty years ago) link

(OK, Sean is much much more suave than that... apologies)

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 22:24 (twenty years ago) link

I don't know! I want to ask Blaine Capatch (former host of "Meet the Geeks") the same thing! (x-post sort of)

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 22:25 (twenty years ago) link

They challenged the assertion that the effects of marijuana are benign with a report that connects use to a number of problems including driving accidents, psychiatric disorders and drug addiction.

So don't get high and drive, don't smoke if you have mental problems (saying that smoking weed is the main cause of someone's mental disorders is ridiculous), and um, yeah, don't do worse drugs (can we PLEASE stop the whole 'gateway' bullshit?)
Can they not find anything negative to say about marijuana that could not also be said about alcohol? If not, then making one legal to consume and not the other is hypocritical.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 22:25 (twenty years ago) link

What it really somes down to here is that the Supreme Court is tired of having to do Parliament's work for them. What they were really saying with this decision is "go bug your MP and stop bugging us".

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 22:28 (twenty years ago) link

b-b-but if we take a firm stand on something, maybe people won't vote for us!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 16:48 (twenty years ago) link

ED BROADBENT'S GONNA COME AND MAKE EVERYTHING GOOD AGAIN.

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 16:52 (twenty years ago) link

two months pass...

>Can they not find anything negative to say about marijuana
>that could not also be said about alcohol?

Hell, you don't have to go that far...

1) Driving Accidents...check
2) Psychiatric Disorders...check
3) Addiction...check

Dang, let's just outlaw masturbation once and for all.

― skwurl pulise (Squirrel_Police), Friday, 19 March 2004 19:36 (twenty years ago) link

4) assmar ...

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 19 March 2004 19:40 (twenty years ago) link

Didn't feel like starting a new thread for this though perhaps I should've, but let's see how long it takes them to come up with some new rules to get around this. Hopefully they never will.

― Bryan B Sure (Bryan), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 19:02 (twenty years ago) link

fourteen years pass...

We're officially legal now. I've got a year to think about whether or not I want my retirement years to be a lot like high school.

― clemenza, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 12:51 (five years ago) link

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