Legalizing pot in Canada will run afoul of global treaties

[flamingfingers]

^ Don't be silly. We went there once before and only made the bootleggers rich. You want to throw you money into "War on Booze'?" Not me.

[dogspoiler]

It wasn't racism..... Never will be.

First it was the textile industry , now it's "big pharma". Pot and hemp will cut into their profits just like hydrogen powered cars would cut into big oils profits...

Cars can run on water.

Are you confusing cars and boats ?

[MAPearce]

Nope .. cars or boats could run on water ... Point is oil companies want them to run on THEIR products , like super duper marine high octane or the lesser grade for the poor folk but NOT water by splitting into it's two elements with a small electrical current OR a basic Diesel engine that can run on used McD's deep fryer fat that you can get for free.. They want you to buy THEIR stuff and their stuff only..

It's not racism that made pot illegal OR keep it that way ..It's big companies that would loose THICK money if it was that were responsible for it AND are for it today ..

[maryjane48]

it was racism that it was first made against the law in the states . the textile industry was against hemp .

[Gone_Fishin]

Ah yes, racism by the anti-hempites. If all else fails, play the race card. Looks like Little Trudeau will be breaking yet another election promise.

[dogspoiler]

So it seems the claim of racism is totally unfounded.

[flamingfingers]

So it seems the claim of racism is totally unfounded.

By googling 'racism and marijuana' you will indeed find that laws making marijuana illegal were indeed based on racism. An example:

http://www.drugwarrant.com/articles/why ... a-illegal/

[Rwede]

So it seems the claim of racism is totally unfounded.

Of course it is totally unfounded.

Cries of "RACISM!" is indicative of the pot proponents who can't grasp the fact that it is contrary to international treaty law to legalize their dope.

I guess living in that fog of smoke all day limits their ability to understand that Justin lied his *bleep* off to them. He knew that he can't legalize it - that's the whole point of the FOI request that the Canadian Press filed to dig this up.

He also knew that his voters were too stoned to figure it out until it was too late. And apparently, some are still too stoned to figure it out, so they just default like automatons to "RACISM!"

Justin lied. The Canadian Press exposed it by getting his briefing notes released. Face it and decide what you're going to do about it. Hold the liar to account.

[Atomoa]

January 1908
THE OPIUM ACT: CANADA’S FIRST NARCOTIC REGULATION

The Act regulates crude and powdered opium and opium prepared for smoking and makes it an offense to import, manufacture, offer to sell or sell or possess to sell opium for non-medical reasons. Violation of the statute include punishment by incarceration of up to three years and/or a fine of $1,000. The legislation is largely motivated by a desire to regulate Chinese residents of Canada

January 1908

REPORT ON THE NEED FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE OPIUM TRADE IN CANADA

Mackenzie King’s special report to Parliament recommends criminal legislation to regulate the opium trade in Canada. King’s report emphasizes the supposedly negative effects of this drug on morality and raises alarm about the spread of opium to young white people especially young women.

Drug prohibition has been described as an experiment of the 20th century. Until 1908 in Canada, it was possible to buy opium, cocaine and morphine from a pharmacy; Prairie farmers once planted hemp as a windbreaker for crops.
But in the early 1900s, the temperance movement was gaining momentum alongside growing hostility towards Asian immigrants. Opium was an initial target, but it didn’t take long for marijuana to be engulfed.

On Sept. 7, 1907, in Vancouver, a rally of the xenophobic Asiatic Exclusion League boiled over into a riot. The mob, more than 10,000 white men, stormed the city’s Chinese and Japanese enclaves, throwing some immigrants in the harbour and damaging every Asian business they could find.
“Not a Chinese window was missed,” one local newspaper reported.

When business owners asked the government for compensation, William Lyon Mackenzie King — then deputy labour minister — was sent to investigate. King was shocked to discover the claimants included legal opium manufacturers. Some Chinese groups asked for help discouraging use of the drug. King returned to Ottawa and wrote a report on opium, including a warning it was catching on with white women and girls.

In 1908 the labour minister tabled a bill prohibiting the manufacture, sale or import of opium except for medicinal purposes.
Canada’s first drug law was passed without debate.

Drug laws were all historically based on controlling unwanted or easily exploitable groups of society. This is common knowledge. Richard Nixon especially kicked it up against those hippies "questioning" war.

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[The Green Barbarian]

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[Ford4x4Truck]

you could answer your question yourself by reading the rules


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