[Newsbot]

Title: Rona Ambrose tells doctors anti-drug campaign not political
Category: Health
Posted By: Zipperfish
Date: 2014-08-19 08:25:11
Canadian

[Zipperfish]

Another Conservative fail.

Protip: The public service isn't a branch of teh Conservative Party.

[andyt]

All is fair on a holy quest. You have to use any means necessary to foil the demons of the pot using Liberal Party. Unleash the hounds.

[herbie]

But they're 'thinking about' bringing in fines for possession of small amounts...
FFS get rid of the clock and put a CALENDAR in the Tory caucus room.

[andyt]

Peter McKay says he's still open to changing the penalty for simple possession to a fine. Apparently allowing adults to legally possess pot will lead to the corruption and degradation of our youth, but giving those adults a mild slap on the wrist is all it will take to prevent this.

In other words:

or really:

[Xort]

I have no problem with the government conducting education to keep people from smoking.

If someone was running on a platform of bringing back smoking into public indoor places, an anti smoking education project by the government wouldn't be a political attack.

[Delwin]

When I was in school, they would always play the "gateway drug" card when it came to marijuana. Now, 30 years later, most of the people I know who smoke marijuana only smoke marijuana.

It feels like the Conservatives have moved so far left of their original mandate that they have no real conservative issues to run on. Marijuana is one of their last bastions of hope.

They lost the gay marriage debate.
They lost the global warming debate.
They lost the abortion debate.
They can't get anything moved on pro gun issues.
They cant make any progress on social conservative issues.
Fiscally, they are no more conservative than any of the liberal parties.
They haven't been particularly pro-military.
They haven't been particularly tough-on-crime.
They get trumped every time they walk into a courtroom.

Let's face it, this party is simply out of gas.

[Thanos]

They also don't promise to punish one region of the country and destroy their economy to placate another region, the way both the Liberals and the NDP would do to the West in order to suck up to Central Canada. They did it before. They'll do it again, and Mulcair has as much as promised it if the horrifying event of the NDP forming a government ever comes to pass. Trudeau Jr. might not be as severe as the NDP want to be, but he'd still do it if the caucus and Ontario/Quebec public opinion wants him too.

It's 2014 in Western Canada. Down East though, especially in the caucus rooms of the Liberals and NDP? Fuck, it's still the thinking and ideology of 1973 when it comes to economic matters.

[Delwin]

Oh really ? What evidence do you have of that. Sounds like serious paranoia.