Salutations Thomas Davie,
Little to no public consultation...
Thank you for offering an opportunity to recenter on the announced topic...
Actually it seems in Québec even existing "consultation" echoes failed to reflect what one could expect after assuming the average Canadian got properly informed - which is where the trouble kind of began quite early, long before Lucie Charlebois came out of the woods... ...where her grandchildren awaited while dreaming of some raw marijuana snack in the neighbourhood!
I really have the fear that all Cannabis will be sold by the gram only...
Any money grab performed by politicians would be a hint of pre-programmed sabotage compatible with mafia-height greedy objectives and i only need to refer to Québec's GreenHouse Producers to illustrate this as they already commented it's possible to offer a 10-fold reduction in costs compared to what's put forward today...
Le cannabis serait 10 fois moins cher dans les serres (2017-Dec-1)
I already gave up my car because of Marijuana...
Are you confirming there's civil asset forfeiture in the CDSA? And if so was it a legacy of Harper or wasn't it added through 1 of the *10* (ten) CDSA modifications performed under Trudeau??
Which would constitute yet another clue suggesting that the "need" to wait for Justin's "Cannabis Act" was little more than a political decoy meant to buy him more time, awaiting for 2019.
...what's next, some blood?
M'well, Trudeau expressed his intention at TLMEP via SRC (2014-Feb-23): «
...on veut réguler et contrôler pour que les gens doivent montrer les cartes d'identité... », in other words he wants us officially identified, too bad he was so vague about "showing" our ID cards (vs handing them out), because more recently i've found mention on twitter (#cannabisQc) about the idea of holding a register for those who volunteer in being excluded in a similar fashion to compulsive gamers at casino doors...
Considering past repeated forms of abuse by government(s) over privacy and related issues i just can't accept being asked to get listed as if i were some wild flesh-eating animal, only to eventually end up on the hotel of bigot anti-cannabic prohibitionist sacrifices!! Not to mention my face is evidence enough that i'm well over the "legal" age anyway.
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Thinking of hotels, this reminds me we don't know/hear much about the individuals who enjoy having a determining voice. For example:
YouTube: Forum d'experts sur l'encadrement du cannabis au Québec - 19 juin 2017
Jean-Sébastien Fallu:
« Les approches populaires sont inefficaces et les approches efficaces sont politiquement suicidaires ou impossibles à mettre en place. »
Didier Jutras-Aswad:
« On légalise pas parce que cette substance-là est dénuée de tout risque... »
The thing is one of those persons most specially attracted Couillard's official attention (in April*) and this may prove relevant in a political context.
But before i develop on him here's yet another face i just can't afford not to mention as this was seen on TV earlier that same month(*):
Senator Jean Lapointe, founder of "La Maison Jean Lapointe".
By the way:
Anonymous Montréal: Les politiciens canadiens se font aussi berner par la scientologie. (2e partie) [2009-Oct-4]
So, doesn't Narconon and Scientology ring any bells?!...
SRC: Narconon a floué et maltraité des patients, selon la Commission des droits de la personne (2014-Apr-14)
Most unfortunately this is the sort of tricks which a bigot « Divide to Conquer » strategy will allow to elude the radar, often translating as Québekers not being adequately informed about facts that occured in their own province. Imagine English Canada!
Now back to my previous focus point...
Guess who Couillard's selected psychiatrist "scientific" happened to be! ... You'd be correct if you answered the tall guy.
Marijuana: les ados risquent des problèmes de santé mentale, prévient un expert (2017-Apr-12)
« Un psychiatre consulté par le gouvernement Couillard l'a mis en garde contre les possibles dérives associées à la légalisation du cannabis.
Les adolescents seraient particulièrement vulnérables, a affirmé le docteur Didier Jutras-Aswad, en entrevue avec La Presse canadienne, mercredi. »
Hold on as this is where the best crunchy part resides, here's what i found which may improve the reader's own perspectives further...
Hear this, he apparently started flirting with politics during the Harper era as well; at least as far as 2010 as there's a picture showing him with Mélanie Joly at the Royal Ontario Museum:
Indeed that's the same guy who got paid by Pfizer in 2013 to produce a study on 120 studies, later mentioned via "Découverte" on national TV the year after:
SRC: Quels sont les effets du cannabis sur le cerveau des adolescents? (2014-Nov-10)
...or more recently subsidized by Insys Therapeutics (manufacturer of the SUBSYS sublingual Fentanyl medication...) to work on CBD for opioïd treatment:
Nasdaq: Insys Therapeutics starts enrollment in cannabidiol trial (2016-Aug-16)
The funny detail being that Didier never felt appropriate to refer to CBD while he had the stage this summer.
Now please tell me i'm not the only Québeker around who can manage to contibute to the announced topic, instead of you know what sort "science" leading to my [ IGNORE ] list...
Good day, have fun!!