Salutations YourBaker,
What do you think of pushing the conservative government to argue...
Considering both Harper
*AND* Trudeau voted for mandatory prison sentences [
* ] i'd just expect them to prove equivalent on the long run anyway, not to mention the sequence of events which took place after Trudeau admitted having a "puff".
8)
Lets consider both parties simply try to keep seducing a same type of voters who happen to be hostile to any respectful/progressist reform, essentially. So it's not as much a matter of party as it is about gaining political support thanks to bigot anti-cannabic prohibitionism: the fear of fear works wonders in the hands of such con actors and the drive to hate can be a powerful lever for numerous sub-groups in need of easy targets to blame, instead of seeking durable solutions via democratic/mature debate in Ottawa's federal parliament.
So far the Liberals kept focussing on adults instead of developing real help that would be adapted for children; worse, i'm expecting many more waves of young persons will pay the price after being permanently prejudiced by an unjust magic-thinking "legaleezed" system, still supported by the United Nations at UNGASS 2016 earlier this year. To top it all it's not ordinary citizens who will "push" the predators around: the later carefully reserved those self-serving bullying jobs to themselves IMO; which is only representative of what they are, of how they keep draping themselves with "champion" morality while being (ir-)responsible for HOMICIDE by POLICE over 235 g of CANNABIS, in Montréal/Québec... Etc., etc.
An insider named Joy Davies made an attempt pushing around until 7 ~ 10 days before elections day as i recall, then she "resigned" as candidate (read she was actually "rejected", if not ejected by force!)... But journalists couldn't accept the truth as it is today, most unfortunately for us decent pro-cannabic Canadian citizens and sympathizers. Briefly put it's not just the politicians who must face criticism, there's the "scientifics" starting with Marc Garneau who also voted with Harper, etc. Then traditional media thriving on controversy & sensationalism, police who KILLs over "weed", specialists/activists in "rehab" centers holding "doctor" titles and many more... E.G. all those anonymous individuals who don't consume and yet they'll align for their own socio-toxic benefit - and respond absent when real humans suffer.
...from the perspective of reducing the cost of legalization by simply decriminalization and age restriction?
Nah! Depending on who's speaking to who the price-tag is already over-estimated at 5 $/g while anyone could grow their own for 10 ~ 50 ¢/g and still feel plain satisfied - especially for having 100 % confidence in the producer, etc... Decriminalization was announced relatively to "INCIDENTAL" possession only, those who try to follow the news must be aware by now that the Liberals are delaying their release of a long awaited report claiming it's due to the language barrier, essentially, after dropping that very significant qualificative - and now the choice for 1 definitive version has been made it appears: prohibition stands he said.
The rules have tightened further for "medical" users after their constitutional rights were challenged extensively; so i can spontaneously imagine what's yet to come when they finally start to deal with "recreative" ("stoners"/"droÿés") users!... Now with COP6 in mind i can't but observe a strong constant determination to vilify the noble molecules in any manner possible, to "deter" children, hence high cost + taxes seems a perfect strategy for an evasive enemy claiming to protect them as a convenient self-serving cover up.
So, no i don't see the price going down, not even below the 2.50 $/g threshold ever!... No more than there will be Harm Reduction measures with ZERO prejudice for those predator's most vulnerable victims - and soon enough the unborn foetus shall serve as their ultimate Troy Horse i believe.
But that's me, YMMV.
...could be used as a makeshift ram for one last kick at unclogging the potential red tape.
The one person i heard on TV that made some sense was Elizabeth May and she's nowhere on the political agenda judging by TV coverage alone. As a citizen of Québec i've indirectly witnessed Thomas Mulcair in action plenty of times,
doing the right things, but he wasn't trusted in western Canuck land and now i fear the opportunity window has effectively closed.
To top it all i consider these "elite" politicians get their power from international treaties nonetheless, so that's were progress could still come from, but not via the United Nations as it exists today. In other words we're doomed, price and taxes will be instrumentalized as iconic symbols on planet Itnoc, suggesting something was done to "save" our children somehow... While champions of political correctness insist in leaving no alternatives for kids other than long-term exposure to SMOKED paper + glue, possibly mixed with psycho-active/addictive tobacco/nicotine, etc. Lets face it, anything else would be a paradoxal impossibility so that's why the pro-cannabic culture itself is now under sustained attack, starting with public visibility and so on.
Euh... IMO we'll be lucky if we they don't try to tatoo us!
Do you think they will attempt a full on buy out of the Canadian industry?
It seems to me they got all the tools to perform a prohibitionist take-over already.
Patient's rights were never high-priority to say the least and i didn't forget that while Cpl. Ronald J. Francis pleaded for help over PTSD on a national scale there was ZERO sympathy coming from Trudeau's side (in the opposition) before this fine officer was was found dead (...); at the time Trudeau kept surprizingly silent IMHO, but this only makes sense now, in retrospective.
Quite too many decent Cannabians are about to get tagged/listed like some hazardous wild animals only to provide an "industry" with captive client$. Those who didn't qualify can be expected to fall into the "criminalized" category, so i'd comment the take-over process was patiently launched long ago, through Harper's conservatives actually... The thing is each of us has only 1 life, THEY can count on multiple successive generations, on another hand, and "scientific truth" is NOT going to stop them the least bit i'm sorry to conclude.
Good day, have fun!!
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