Legalize pot: Four former Vancouver mayors say marijuana prohibition failed

Everyone understands this except the Harperites.

All it will take is one lost election to get pot legalized again, and hopefully they tax the hell out of it.

All it will take is one lost election to get pot legalized again, and hopefully they tax the hell out of it.

works for me but if the tax is to high it will encourage black market sales! tax should be no more than that on alcohol.

With everything going on in the World today is making weed legal really that important?

Lets see, you got :
Terrorism
Murderers
Pedophiles
Thieves
Domestic Violence
Unsafe vehicles on the road
Street racing
White collar crime in the billions $

You've got the justice system and the jails jam packed to the ceiling.

And you want to keep prosecuting us pot heads sitting in our living rooms playing Black ops smoking joints and munching out?

When is the last time the cops got a call saying that a couple were smoking pot and fighting on the lawn. It doesn't happen. When's the last time someone was stoned on pot and got in a fight or murdered someone or did anything but chill out? It doesn't happen.

Its just one less thing to plug up the justice system with.

I've heard that pot is between $200-$240 an oz in my community. And I'm willing to bet that you don't spend $200 a month on fruit and veggies.

Grow it, tax it and regulate it. Cause we're going to get it somehow.

Got a nice new bong the other day, good investment. Wish I was at home now.

Lets see, you got :
Terrorism
Murderers
Pedophiles
Thieves
Domestic Violence
Unsafe vehicles on the road
Street racing
White collar crime in the billions $

You've got the justice system and the jails jam packed to the ceiling.

And you want to keep prosecuting us pot heads sitting in our living rooms playing Black ops smoking joints and munching out?

When is the last time the cops got a call saying that a couple were smoking pot and fighting on the lawn. It doesn't happen. When's the last time someone was stoned on pot and got in a fight or murdered someone or did anything but chill out? It doesn't happen.

Its just one less thing to plug up the justice system with.

I've heard that pot is between $200-$240 an oz in my community. And I'm willing to bet that you don't spend $200 a month on fruit and veggies.

Grow it, tax it and regulate it. Cause we're going to get it somehow.

Got a nice new bong the other day, good investment. Wish I was at home now.

People are rarely, if ever, jailed for smoking pot.

People aren't being accosted in their homes for smoking weed and playing video games.

I don't see why there's such a rush to legalize something that's so loosely policed anyways.

Why do anything about anything when there are so many other things to do something(or nothing) about?

Priorities.

The laws which make weed illegal are causing the same situations that prohibition did.

Lets see, you got :
Terrorism
Murderers
Pedophiles
Thieves
Domestic Violence
Unsafe vehicles on the road
Street racing
White collar crime in the billions $

You've got the justice system and the jails jam packed to the ceiling.

And you want to keep prosecuting us pot heads sitting in our living rooms playing Black ops smoking joints and munching out?

When is the last time the cops got a call saying that a couple were smoking pot and fighting on the lawn. It doesn't happen. When's the last time someone was stoned on pot and got in a fight or murdered someone or did anything but chill out? It doesn't happen.

Its just one less thing to plug up the justice system with.

I've heard that pot is between $200-$240 an oz in my community. And I'm willing to bet that you don't spend $200 a month on fruit and veggies.

Grow it, tax it and regulate it. Cause we're going to get it somehow.

Got a nice new bong the other day, good investment. Wish I was at home now.

People are rarely, if ever, jailed for smoking pot.

People aren't being accosted in their homes for smoking weed and playing video games.

I don't see why there's such a rush to legalize something that's so loosely policed anyways.
Because people still have to deal with gangs to get their hands on the weed, legalizing will regulate it and cause stores to pop up that you can buy it from.

Priorities.

Whose priorities?
Who decides?
How do they decide?
Should we start with the easiest stuff? Or with what has the most benefit?
Can we only do one thing at a time?

Priorities.

Whose priorities?
Who decides?
How do they decide?
Should we start with the easiest stuff? Or with what has the most benefit?
Can we only do one thing at a time?

The population decides.

In turn, politicians turn their attention towards those issues that are most important to the majority of people to get them elected.

I don't think legalizing pot was an issue during any recent election.

Macleans did a poll of Canadians back in January.

What is the most pressing issue facing Canada in 2011?

The economy 34.92%
The federal deficit 17.81%
Climate change 12.56%
Poverty 6.84%
The war in Afghanistan 4.68%
The aging population 12.66%
National unity 2.73%
Other: 7.8%

It's still a fringe issue.

Fixed for accuracy. Just a cop out. Our society can multi-task. Since the Reformacons are rewriting the laws anyway, this would have been a good time to do it.

What does the "World" have to do with Domestic Policy? Bupkiss.