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Canada legalises recreational cannabis use

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Re: Canada legalises recreational cannabis use

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Post by dgzl »

anoncoward111 wrote: post #31
dgzl wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would argue that the 10 amendment in the Bill of Rights is all that a person would need to nullify gross overreaches of power by the federal government.

In practice your assets will be civily forfeited, you'll be held in pre-trial detention (prison) for months, and then every lawyer will laugh you out of the room when you tell him you want to do a constitutional defense. "Just take the plea, I can get them down to 2 years. Otherwise youre facing 9 to 20 years."

What even are rights anymore.

Re: Canada legalises recreational cannabis use

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readhn wrote: post #22

What do we do about heroin/opiods that are the real problem today? Cheap, highly addictive. Multiple overdoses today in my local news feed reported.... :( You cant overdose and die from MJ use (or its highly unlikely). This whole war on drugs thing feels like a game of smoke and mirrors...

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Re: Canada legalises recreational cannabis use

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Post by draw_down »

readhn wrote: post #22

What do we do about heroin/opiods that are the real problem today? Cheap, highly addictive. Multiple overdoses today in my local news feed reported.... :( You cant overdose and die from MJ use (or its highly unlikely). This whole war on drugs thing feels like a game of smoke and mirrors...

From what I remember, you’d need to smoke something like 3/4 ton of cannabis in a short time to die. So, safe to say you can’t. Which is why you’ve never heard about it happening.

Re: Canada legalises recreational cannabis use

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Post by anoncoward111 »

dgzl wrote: post #41
anoncoward111 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In practice your assets will be civily forfeited, you'll be held in pre-trial detention (prison) for months, and then every lawyer will laugh you out of the room when you tell him you want to do a constitutional defense. "Just take the plea, I can get them down to 2 years. Otherwise youre facing 9 to 20 years."

What even are rights anymore.

We have them on paper. But, de facto, we do not have many at all.

It is worse than anarchy. It is arbitrary democracy.

Re: Canada legalises recreational cannabis use

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Post by anoncoward111 »

koverda wrote: post #39
anoncoward111 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>campaign against them And then suddenly when the death threats and FBI audits and etc start showing up in your life, and you lose the campaign anyway, you'll say to yourself, "shit, this isn't a democracy we're living in, this is just a mafia state."

Tinfoil hats are this way.

Go run for office then. Surely it can't be that hard and daunting.

Re: Canada legalises recreational cannabis use

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Post by bjourne »

Should any substance which enhances the risk of schizophrenia be legalized? https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/317170.php It appears to me that if cannabis was a food additive with the same risk profile, no one would think it should be legal.

I understand that the counter-argument is "What about tobacco/alcohol?" But those substances are already legal and there are no "equal opportunities" rights for drugs. Like if artificial sweeteners were invented today, they would either be banned or there would be harsh restrictions on how food producers could use them.

Yes, tobacco kills a lot of people. But as many health experts think letting the tobacco companies sell cigarettes was one of the greatest mistakes of the 20th century, I fail to see how that is an argument. We fucked up once, so we need to do it again?

Re: Canada legalises recreational cannabis use

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Post by api »

koverda wrote: post #39
anoncoward111 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>campaign against them And then suddenly when the death threats and FBI audits and etc start showing up in your life, and you lose the campaign anyway, you'll say to yourself, "shit, this isn't a democracy we're living in, this is just a mafia state."

Tinfoil hats are this way.

Meh. Faraday mesh hats work much better.
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