Rick Adams wrote:
It's like drug legalization and regulation (for adults)--every rational person knows it's the only way to reduce drug use (by eliminating the profit motive from dealing), and every rational voter knows that marijuana is no more harmful than alcohol (not to say it isn't harmful--just not MORE harmful)--but find a politician above the level of city council willing to publicly take that position!
An interesting, and quite contrary, thing happened in Canada last year. The then-Justice Minister, Martin Cauchon, was bringing forward marijuana decriminalization legislation. During a press scrum, some reporter *thinking he could stir up trouble, no doubt) asked if Cauchon had ever smoked marijuana when he was younger. The minister snapped off "of course," with a tone that implicitly said of the reporter something along the lines of, "What kind of a dope are you?" The exchange was broadcast that night on the national news, most people had a good chuckle, and that was about the last that anyone ever heard about it. In the US, things would have been quite different of course (remember the great ruckus caused by Clinton's "I didn't inhale."remark?).
The then-Prime Minister, Jean Cretien, dissolved parliament (over other matters entirely) before the legislation came to a vote and so marijuana is still not decriminalized in Canada.
Regards, -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 416-736-5115 ext. 66164 fax: 416-736-5814 http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ============================ .
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