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Originally posted by Mojo_PeiPei
The first part doesn't bother me so much, in fact I kinda got a kick out of it. What got me riled was the "government-authorized drug-injection site". I mean get serious this is condoning the use of a horrible and dangerous drug, hypocrisy aside, weed is not the same thing as heroin or even less addictive/dangerous injectables. I was wondering what others think of this?
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Well, I'd rather not legalize marijuana in the first place, but if that's what the citizens of Canada voted for, then they'll have to live with it. Such is the peril of democracy. Distributing needles I don't see as that much different than distributing condoms, though certainly I'd object to a government-authorized... condom-injection site?
Some good may come out of it after all, though. If we can work on rehabilitation (in the United States, roughly half of all teens and adolescents admitted for care due to substance abuse are admitted for marjiuana only) and ease them off of it, well, that's not so bad. It'd be a flytrap, so to speak. Or maybe the marijuana is so bad on purpose that they make even hardcore addicts swear off the stuff?
Last, anyone else find it hilariously ironic that even in marijuana production, the free market private sector delivers a cheaper and superior product than the government?
-- Alvin