Salutations,
Louise Arbour explained it well the very next day after “4-20” 2016 at the UNGASS event in NY: the system punishes itself. Which is a way to say that abuse of our public institutions by bigot anti-cannabic prohibitionists destroys the voter’s confidence in them, while boosting rampant socio-toxic cynism which contaminated the Commonwealth’s democratic societies in multiple crucial aspects including health and security… In Québec Trudeau’s mari-caca justified HOMICIDE by SPVM-GTi POLICE over ~8 oz just a few weeks before UNGASS 2016 and our local mass-media press didn’t seem willing to make the link at all…
Truth is that cannabis has no place on a schedule anymore than tobacco and/or alcohol, at the very least. Actually even having to commit into such constant comparisons feels unfair because cannabis doesn’t KILL and a so-called cannabic “addiction” is nothing like craving from nicotine addiction, or alcohol in the worse cases (e.g. in extreme situations craving kills too so i’ll never believe that cannabis is the same)…
If it’s OKay to murder people over a plant then lets start with the plants used in tobacco, beer and wine. M’well… I’m exagerating. But the point is it’s the apparent general indifference echoed by mass media which allows the worse imaginable permanent prejudice to happen, because cannabis was wrongfully added to the “schedule” via a UN treaty of 1925 where it’s classified besides heroin and opium:
[ The 1925 Geneva Opium Conventions ]
The 1925 Geneva Opium Conventions, Chapter 19 - The International Legal Environment
And of course Justin Trudeau still refuses to repair mistakes of the past originating with the socio-toxic intervention of his own political party in 1923, when Henri-Sévérin Béland unilaterally transfered to Ottawa a provincial responsability, as proven de-facto by the existence of the “Loi de Pharmacie” of 1890. Brefly put: politics is the true poison here.
The actual presence of cannabis on any schedule is an insult to intelligence when we put it in a real-world context, it’s that simple. Remove it then politicians loose their grip, hence after that the justice system assisted by deadly-armed police, for starters. Followed by pharmacists taking over a market previously belonging to apothecaries… Then came the Collège des Médecins (and peers), eventually, which are among those to blame in priority for such travesty of justice, performed by bigot self-serving “elites” including journalists, who all caused real permanent prejudice to generations of persons since Nixon including vulnerable/legally-minor individuals. In The Name Of Children… And now this: HOMICIDE by POLICE over 8 oz.
{ Wow! Re-reading myself i realize the sort of verbal diarrhea which politics/justice vs cannabis topics can inspire!.. }
So it’s not just overzealous and pathetic. The ongoing criminalization branded as “légaleezation” which Trudeau performed via 10+ CDSA changes and soon his “Cannabis Act” is a predatory act against the nation’s population with a focus on youth. Serving no morals any more noble than what’s described in “Kids-for-Cash” IMO:
[ http://kidsforcashthemovie.com/ ]
Good day, have fun!! 