Why Prohibition Is A Fraud Perpetrated By Conservative Politicians

When cannabis was added to the schedule of prohibited substances in 1923, Canadians were inaugurated into a fraud from which we are just now emerging. It was not a fraud in the familiar business sense – Volkswagen, Bre-X Gold, Enron or subprime mortgages – rather in the sense that it was foisted on the Canadian public by people who could have known better but were inspired by a righteous impulse to punish and stigmatize and criminalize and punish some more.

But as we know – and as the examples above demonstrate – all frauds end. They are all exposed as frauds eventually.

Which makes it all the more curious that intelligent people like Rona Ambrose – interim leader of the Conservative Party of Canada – insist on pretending that cannabis prohibition has some foundation in logic, common sense, medicine, public health or something worthy of serious consideration.

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