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  Legalize Pot, Travelling Committee Told
Posted by FoM on April 17, 2002 at 07:47:31 PT
By Beverley Ware  
Source: Halifax Daily News 

cannabis The federal government should consider legalizing marijuana and allowing limited use of other illegal drugs, say a couple of Maritime university professors.

Legalizing pot “should be given serious attention,” William McKim of Memorial University in Newfoundland told a Commons committee into the non-medical use of drugs yesterday. “Changing the legal status may in fact be quite beneficial.”

The committee is holding national hearings and will hear a second day of testimony in Halifax today.

McKim also recommended easing patients’ access to other drugs, including morphine and heroine, which have the same effect on the brain as the over-the-counter- drug codeine.

Morphine has limited medical use, but McKim said both drugs can help patients suffering painful deaths.

“There’s a lack of rationale in our public policy when it comes to the use of drugs,” he said. “In the last 30 years, there’s been an unbelievable increase in understanding what drugs are, what they do and why people take them, (but) there’s been virtually no change whatsoever in public policy or legal statutes on any of these drugs.”

Existing legislation, he said, is based on history and politics, not knowledge of the drug.

McKim and fellow Memorial psychology professor Robert Adamec said they support the movement toward “harm reduction,” which promotes needle exchanges, safe shoot-up sites and methadone programs. The intent is to reduce the harmful effects of drugs on both the user and society.

Adamec said legalizing marijuana is a form of harm reduction.

Committee vice-chairman Randy White said that will be a hard sell for the Canadian public.

“A lot of parents aren’t going to accept that,” he said.

Source: Halifax Daily News
Author: Beverley Ware
Published: April 17, 2002
Copyright: 2002 The Daily News
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Comment #4 posted by FoM on April 19, 2002 at 20:52:21 PT
p4me
I really like the joke about wisdom. That was good and I read you will be 50 soon in another thread yesterday. I thought you were very young. I don't mean 50 is old because I'm 54 and I ain't old! LOL!

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Comment #3 posted by p4me on April 17, 2002 at 12:06:53 PT
a little joke
If I had some medicine today would be a good day for it. So in lack of medicine let me construct a little joke.

There was a DEA helicopter land near a tomato patch and a bunch of guys went around and found a marijuana plant. The Kevlar goons came out with guns drawn only to find that nobody was around. Now the marijuana plant was planted by a smart bird that liked the way the hempseed made him feel and it made him popular with the ladies as he had the slickest and brightest feathers of any bird around. Everything was fine until the helicopter took off with his marijuana plant.

The bird then turned to a worm that ate only from the roots but it was still good enough to make his home right under the marijuana plant and the worm was pissed too. So the bird said to the worm, we need to follow that helicopter and at least get a seed to start a new plant. The worm said you will have to go by yourself because the only place to ride is in your beak and without your favorite food, I may have to do as your next meal. The bird said, "I would not eat you, we are marijuana buddies and besides that you can ride in my behind and you will be very safe."

So about the time the helicopter starts moving away from the tomato patch the bird and the worm are in hot pursuit. They get to about a thousand feet and the worm comments at what a view it is and ask how much he thinks the helicopter cost to run. The bird says in Hawaii they rent them for $650 dollars an hour and the worm is shocked at the expense and the helicopter and the bird keep rising.

At two thousand feet the worm is a little afraid and still in awe of the view when he asked how much do those 6 men make in a day and the bird replies that it would have to be over a thousand dollars a day at least for 6 DEA agents.

The helicopter rises to three thousand feet and the bird is right there when a couple of men light up a joint. The bird keeps following when all kinds of bullets start flying by and the bird says we are witnesses to a crime and they cannot let us live. The worm says to the bird in a very sober voice, "I know we have been good friends, but tell me very truthfully- you would't shit me would you."

VAAI

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Comment #2 posted by bruce42 on April 17, 2002 at 11:17:05 PT
says him
"Committee vice-chairman Randy White said that will be a hard sell for the Canadian public.

“A lot of parents aren’t going to accept that,” he said."

Did you ask them Randy? Did you personally go around the entire country and ask them? Of course you didn't. So really, it's not the parents that are the hard sell but you. Why can't this guy just admit that it is his problem instead of blaming the people of Canada. I hate how politicians can base policy on the words they put into the mouths of the public.

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Comment #1 posted by TroutMask on April 17, 2002 at 08:22:39 PT
By the way, the world is round too.
"Adamec said legalizing marijuana is a form of harm reduction. Committee vice-chairman Randy White said that will be a hard sell for the Canadian public."

Is Randy White's head buried deep in the sand or somewhere else? The majority of Canadians are for the reform of marijuana laws. What an idget.

-TM

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