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- NikoKun, on 10/24/2007, -7/+155Wow, this is the second case in 4 months, which found Cannabis Prohibition to be unconstitutional. Yay for Canada! At least their judges are willing to make progress, compared to what we have here in the states... -_-
This is a comforting reminder that the end of Cannabis Prohibition is inevitable. Just hope we can get more situations like this, to happen here in the US...
Excellent news, gladly dugg! - ScornForSega, on 10/23/2007, -2/+115Good stuff. I don't even smoke pot, but I think that if you do, you shouldn't go to jail for it.
Also, can we get a link to a real source? A posting on a forum full of pot leaf banners ain't exactly the most credible source in the world. - whatthefu, on 10/25/2007, -20/+127ALL CAPS IS ENTIRELY UNNECESSARY!
- synned, on 10/24/2007, -2/+76I used to do drugs, I still do but I used to too.
- Fritzed, on 10/25/2007, -3/+72NOTE TO DIGGERS - Ontario is not in the US
- cissystrut, on 10/24/2007, -4/+5350 years from now...
"Dad, today in history we learned about how marijuana was illegal and how the government would put people in jail, even people that used it for medicinal purposes. Why would people support that?"
"Well, honey, we call those people 'bastards'." - chronichyjinx, on 10/24/2007, -4/+49Good things grow in Ontariiiiiiooooooooo!!!!
- Sabarok, on 10/23/2007, -1/+34It's already against the law to drive under the influence of a mind altering substance. That means pot as well as alcohol
- evilregis, on 10/23/2007, -1/+31when im high i type all lowercase and dont use any punctuation
- ZombieNinja, on 10/23/2007, -6/+35WOOT!!
I'm Going North,.. just need a compass and some sort of American to Canadiananan translation device... eh. - NikoKun, on 10/23/2007, -2/+30The majority should never be able to ban the rights of the minority.
- tehowe, on 10/24/2007, -3/+30Haha. Take that Harper. Take that, 'crackdown'.
- jstepno, on 10/24/2007, -3/+29The legal status of marijuana has been propped up by lies about the substance since the early 1900s. They've made a new excuse for it every decade or so. "It'll make you go INSANE" "It will make you VIOLENT" "It will make you stupid" "It is a gateway drug!!!" "It will make you unmotivated and you'll sit on the couch all day"
If alcohol is legal, marijuana should be. - cissystrut, on 10/23/2007, -1/+27yes, they should be drunk instead.
- neilbaylor, on 10/24/2007, -1/+25ummm, yes, there is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Canad ... - varun1s, on 10/24/2007, -1/+25In a "free" country.....adults should be "free" to do whatever with their own lives, provided that it doesn't harm others. Alcohol and tobacco are legal as long as no one else is harmed. So why not that with marijuana? They all carry a varying potential for substance abuse. And they are all relatively harmless when consumed in moderation. Marijuana is not even addictive like tobacco. Furthermore, it was banned because of white resentment against blacks, hispanics, and fillipinos - who were the biggest consumers of cannabis. Similarly, opium was banned because of resentment against the chinese workers who competed with whites for jobs in american factories. The kind of reasons that lead to ban against various so called drugs will surprise you!
What bothers me the most, is that hurts everyone and funds crime. By prohibition, you raise the street price and take away funds from poor families. Who may then resort to more crime due to a lack of money, and a lack of job opportunities from having a criminal record. Then, that black money goes to dealers and drug lords who fund crime with it since the money can't go elsewhere through a bank. What a ridiculous system that robs the citizens and funds the big criminals? - cissystrut, on 10/23/2007, -4/+26yes, you can find the petition at www.stopbeingadouchebaginassumingthatpeoplecantleadtheirownlives.com
- masgrada, on 10/23/2007, -0/+21...and we should get rid of alcohol as well. Duh. As well as sleeping medications or even any other meds that say "do not use while operating heavy machinery." Because really if you can't operate heavy machinery, why should you operate any machinery at 70mph?
Hell, we could ban EVERYTHING. - inactive, on 10/23/2007, -2/+22Why do people who rarely or never have gotten high sound really stupid when they talk about getting ***** up? It's as uncomfortable as listening to your parents try to sound cool.
- NikoKun, on 10/23/2007, -3/+23WTF? Just like they don't stand for drunk drives, because alcohol is obviously totally illegal there?
Baked drives are still better than drunk drives... -_- Yet alcohol is the legal drug, yeah, makes a whole lot of sense... -_-
And to add, DUI laws would still be in place... -_- If your a responsible user, then you wont drive high or drunk... If not, then you're breaking the DUI laws, and should be punished. =P
No need to outlaw either pot or alcohol, and punish responsible users, for what some idiots do... - BrainInAJar, on 10/23/2007, -0/+20because it doesn't harm anyone but the consentual user. No harm, no foul.
blowing it in other peoples' faces, driving high, or robbing cars to fuel an addiction ( not to pot, that's silly ) are quite seperate from the act of using drugs in and of themselves. - cissystrut, on 10/23/2007, -2/+21Why do you assume it would be legal to drive under the influence? That has nothing to do with the legality of pot. Think sometimes...
- s7r1k3r, on 10/23/2007, -1/+18Why dont you go after alcohol then instead of something that grows naturally.
- inactive, on 10/23/2007, -0/+17How is doing anything a right? It doesn't have to be said in the constitution directly, to still be our right... By default we have those rights.
The constitution says what the government can and cannot do to us... not what rights we have directly.
Using whatever someone wants, on their own body, is not a crime... and no other person is being harmed, but that individual.
So rather than ask what rights I have, how about I ask you, how is it really a crime, to smoke pot?
Where in the constitution, does it give the government control over what we put into our own bodies? WHERE?
"If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be a sorry state, as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."
- Thomas Jefferson - NinjaBoy, on 10/23/2007, -2/+19Man you REALLY need to chill out and smoke a joint.
- 0ddity, on 10/24/2007, -1/+17Theres no constitution in Canada like there's no brain in your head. It may be there in reality, but you'd never know it unless you looked closely.
- obelisky, on 10/23/2007, -2/+18ah yet another person who obviously never... ya...
- ElwinRansom, on 10/23/2007, -1/+16I've never been able to understand why one harmful drug can be legal while another clearly less harmful one is prohibited. They should ALL be legal, it's your ***** body and you aren't harming anyone else if you are doing it responsibly. Anything else is simply someone telling you what you can and can't do to YOURSELF, and that's utter *****.
If they stopped arresting people for possession and trafficking of marijuana, maybe they'd have more room/time to take care of ACTUAL CRIMES that are actually harming people. - inactive, on 10/23/2007, -3/+18Can you imagine that?
Canadians have more Freedom than Americans do. - kakti, on 10/23/2007, -2/+16As people have pointed out over and over again, there are already laws in place against driving while intoxicated, spousal abuse, vandalism, etc. Just because people are allowed to legally smoke pot doesn't mean it's legal to drive impaired, or get in a fight while high (which wouldn't happen anyways)
The whole point it, any drug related crime is already a crime. You're just using drug use as a scapegoat. Whether you are under the influence of drugs (alcohol is a drug) or not, if you fight someone, vandalize something, run around naked in public, it's still a crime. - cfazzini, on 10/23/2007, -0/+14Mitch for the win.
- isntreal, on 10/23/2007, -1/+14Grow your own.
- joklem, on 10/23/2007, -1/+14Why so much hate?
- slamtv7, on 10/23/2007, -0/+13Lots of Mitch Hedberg comments today.
- funkydude101, on 10/23/2007, -2/+13Some baked douchebag crashed into my car the other day... regardless of that, your comment doesn't make any sense, since driving under any illegal substance, alcohol or specific prescription drugs is against the law.
- NikoKun, on 10/23/2007, -1/+12Thanks for showing the world, what a horrible person you are.
- markp93, on 10/23/2007, -1/+12"...In the lunch recess Justice Edmunston had read the judgement..." Of course it was during the lunch recess, since they all had the munchies.
- bradallen18, on 10/23/2007, -11/+22when we're talking about pot, CAPS MUST BE ON AT ALL TIMES!
- chadtatro, on 10/23/2007, -3/+14LOUD NOISES!
- MrSlumberjack, on 10/23/2007, -2/+12dick. i agree, but still... dick.
- Rikkochet, on 10/23/2007, -1/+11Uh, you realize this is a Canadian judge making a ruling in a Canadian court that applies to Canadian law? From what you said it sounds like you seem to think it's some Canadian judge in the US.
- pyrotix, on 10/23/2007, -0/+10THIS NEWS IS TOTALLY DESERVING OF CRUISE CONTROL!
-Kevin, Toronto - UncleCrapper, on 10/23/2007, -1/+11You sir, are an asshat. The judge found that simple possession was not a crime in this case because in a parallel court a decision was rendered that found the laws against possession of no force or effect due to the fact that the GOVERNMENT, aka Health Canada, is in the business of distributing marijuana to people under the medical marijuana program.
There you go. No "liberal" conspiracies required. - FadieZ, on 10/23/2007, -1/+11And people ask me why I like it here so much.
- NinjaBoy, on 10/27/2007, -1/+11Your comment says 3 mins ago, so around 372 diggs is little??
- Rikkochet, on 10/23/2007, -1/+101) That's very slowly failing in Western Europe and I'm sure the rest of the world will follow suit. It's progress.
2) Not purchasing illegal drugs means there's no call for them to be legal, so in effect you're just asking for this ban to remain.
3) Don't believe everything you're told about drug trafficking. There are some real pieces of work in the lab-type drugs that get smuggled in, but pot is grown by a hell of a lot more people than violent organized crime. - Jeffler, on 10/23/2007, -1/+10Nobody's gonna top that post in this topic. Bravo sir!
- apetrie, on 10/23/2007, -1/+10You are not necessarily (and quite unlikely) to be funding anything nasty if you are buying pot in Ontario. If you want to be sure of it, just buy from some old hippie dude with a farm and not THAT many customers. There are lots of them, they are easy to find, and they are not making any contributions to organized crime except their own business which should not be illegal anyway.
- Lothar121, on 10/23/2007, -0/+9Tax and regulate it for adults. Allow police to target more serious criminals. Free up our prisons and jails! If you hate pot, get over it. No legalization law is going to make you smoke it. In fact, the proposed initiatives such as the on in Nevada in 06 banned public use. We all hate many things, but that does not mean they should all be illegal. Cannabis legalization would bring billions every year to government coffers to pay for stuff we currently do not have the funding for!
- noumuon, on 10/23/2007, -0/+9actually, driving while fatigued is just as bad as driving stoned. therefore, the only obvious solution is to make driving on cocaine, crack or meth madatory.
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