[Newsbot]

Title: Most Canadians firmly in favour of decriminalizing marijuana: poll
Category: Law & Order
Posted By: Curtman
Date: 2012-07-04 18:50:49
Canadian

[Curtman]

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Support for decriminalization is strongest in Atlantic Canada (72 per cent) followed by British Columbia, Saskatchewan/Manitoba and Ontario � in all three regions, support for decriminalization runs at 69 per cent.

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Opposition to decriminalization is strongest in Alberta, where 42 per cent of people don�t like the idea.

You cowboys are a strange bunch.

I expect this to be embarrassing for the Harperites when they have to explain the mandatory minimums this fall when they start. For a war on drugs that even Harper says is a failure.

[RUEZ]

Most people are to busy working, and having a life, to really care about this piddly shit.

[Lemmy]

Exactly the point, Ruez. Marijuana use is a private matter, of no concern one's fellow man. Time for the nanny state to stand down.

[Gunnair]

Agreed. Let's put this old horse down and move on.

[Freakinoldguy]

Harper should decriminalize it and then he could go down in history for issuing great quotes like:

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The state has no business in the Bongs of the nation.

But I wonder what the numbers would have been had they asked if marijuana should be legalized, since decriminalizing doesn't make it legal?

[llama66]

Decriminalize it, the cops have better things to do than arrest some hippie that has a quarter ounce of weed and is on his way to a buddies.

Really for the most part its a waste of the Police's and the Court's time, they should be going after the people who deserve the Police's time and efforts.

[Zipperfish]

There's no votes in it. And that's all those guys care about.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Unfortunately, decrimming is a half-assed measure. One thing the gangs involved in the distribution of weed like better than prohibition, it's decriminalization.

[andyt]

Half assed measures are the Canadian way. Just as the Rhino party proposed switching over to driving on the left-hand side of the road. Since this is Canada, we do things gradually, so the first year, only trucks and buses would drive on the left.

[OnTheIce]

Perhaps we all should take a look at C-10 before we assume that people with an ounce of weed will be charged. That's not the case.

Decrim is a joke anyways. Either legalize it or don't.

[BartSimpson]

May as well legalize it. While you're at it you could also legalize polygamy, pedophillia, heroin, guns, and sharp pointy sticks.

[Thanos]

Other generations used to fight their battles for freedom over such issues as government jack-boots kicking down your door over free speech. Or saving other people from slavery and genocide. Or believing in a different God than the one the King demanded you obey.

Today we base our fight for freedom on the demands of eternal teenagers who want to get high and sit on the couch eating Cheezies on the couch in the basement all day. Talk about being the wastrel children of a much, much lesser generation.

[Regina]

The headline is a little misleading. The article actually states: Two-thirds of Canadians think the law should be changed so that people caught with small amounts of marijuana no longer face criminal penalties or fines, a new poll has found.

[Curtman]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

May as well legalize it. While you're at it you could also legalize polygamy, pedophillia, heroin, guns, and sharp pointy sticks.

Let's just make it easy. If you can't find a victim, you can't find a crime.