Marc Emery: Justin Trudeau's Reefer Madness
The “discussion” paper about legalizing marijuana is out from the Liberal government.
When I first heard of the “legalization” task force, I envisioned Order-of-Canada quality people touring the country, listening to Canadians, acknowledging the terrible prohibition mistakes of the past, and pledging to find a new way forward past prohibition into the era—it's 2016, after all!—of autonomous adult choice in the matter of cannabis and our bodies.
I saw legalization as this: the government stops a failed policy of marijuana prohibition because it has needlessly given over two million Canadians criminal records since 1964.
It also recognizes that empowering police to arrest peaceful Canadians over their devotion to a plant is wrong, immoral, enriches crime gangs, and corrupts police and our enforcement processes. This scapegoats millions of Canadians who choose the beneficent and useful cannabis plant, making them second-class citizens who can lose their job, their home, their children, and their...
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