Salutations KnightWorrier,
...no Nancy Reagan to use this as a drug war weapon...
M'well, i vaguely remember this month on national canuck French-speaking TV, via its main daily news bulletin hearing
Céline Galipeau doing pretty much just that - under the form of some typical twisted juxtaposition involving out-of-comparison (real...) socio-toxic risks to Public Health, as alcohol & tobaco for starters, and yet the positions relative to a common sense of proportions vs repercussions seems severely distorted (actually reversed) the instant "marijuana" and its adepts can be shamed publicly at everyone's expense.
Too bad i ain't able to get more specific, all i can tell is that she aligned a number of CoViD-19 risk factors and put cannabis right in the middle as if such statement sounded obvious... Multiple references to the opioïds crisis were made if i'm not mistaking, i was also left with an impression that "
ADDICTION" could as well been the common enemy. So these days SRC's "spe¢iali$ts"/"expert$" appear to expect the populace/audience NOT to even want to question their official premise that it's fair to mention true physical "
ADDICTION" (to a legal drug as alcohol, for example...) and include consumption dosing issues strictly related to cannabis. Mass-media was quick to skip such debates and take for granted that very different situations as this may somehow still fit nicely in a same sentence pointing the public opinion's accusating finger at "stoner$"/"droÿé$" endangering the world, euh... Because all those people are necessarily "
sick", right?, and hence must pose a critical Public Health threat similar to needles exchange, or just seek the comforting heat of public constructions, whatever. At least that's how it sounded, kind of blaming the "buzz" of Trudeau's mari-caca altogether with effects hardly comparable.
Overall my version (after searching in vain for an on-line record...) boils down to the classic "
Drug-Free World" propaganda/utopia, basically warning a vulnerable population to fear "
ADDICTS" because they represent a most dangerous virus transmission vector quite capable of bringing our hospitals on their knees while also threatening lives in everyone's families. Etc., etc. Quite a charming TV moment, especially if inhaling Kosher Zyklon at a rebate black-market price! Euh...
And i wasn't even really paying attention until i sensed that hypocryte sting.
Good day, have fun!!
