Canada Delays Sales of Recreational Cannabis in Retail Stores as Legalization Looms

By Kristine Owram and | August 14, 2018

  • August 14, 2018 at 11:04 am
    Brian Kelly says:
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    Fear of Marijuana Legalization Nationwide is unfounded. Not based on any science or fact whatsoever. So please prohibitionists, we beg you to give your scare tactics, “Conspiracy Theories” and “Doomsday Scenarios” over the inevitable Legalization of Marijuana Nationwide a rest. Nobody is buying them anymore these days. Okay?

    Furthermore, if all prohibitionists get when they look into that nice, big and shiny, crystal ball of theirs, while wondering about the future of marijuana legalization, is horror, doom, and despair, well then I suggest they return that thing as quickly as possible and reclaim the money they shelled out for it, since it’s obviously defective.

    The prohibition of marijuana has not decreased the supply nor the demand for marijuana at all. Not one single iota, and it never will. Just a huge and complete waste of our tax dollars to continue criminalizing citizens for choosing a natural, non-toxic, relatively benign plant proven to be much safer than alcohol.

    If prohibitionists are going to take it upon themselves to worry about “saving us all” from ourselves, then they need to start with the drug that causes more death and destruction than every other drug in the world COMBINED, which is alcohol!

    Why do prohibitionists feel the continued need to vilify and demonize marijuana when they could more wisely focus their efforts on a real, proven killer, alcohol, which again causes more destruction, violence, and death than all other drugs, COMBINED?

    Prohibitionists really should get their priorities straight and/or practice a little live and let live. They’ll live longer, happier, and healthier, with a lot less stress if they refrain from being bent on trying to control others through Draconian Marijuana Laws.

    • August 15, 2018 at 10:51 am
      Libertarian Agent says:
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      Hear! Hear!! There will always be a black market, and we might as well stop paying the DEA to enforce outdated laws and bring in tax dollars on sales. I’m sure Craig and his cronies will be on here trolling your comment in not too long on how ‘devil’s lettuce’ is going to ruin the country and world. But what they don’t realize is that people do it anyways, illegal or not. And I am positive they also do drugs (caffeine…Nicotine…alcohol…..etc.). I’m certainly glad to hear there are some reasonable people besides a handful of us on IJ! =)

  • August 15, 2018 at 10:46 am
    MKB says:
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    What?? I am shocked!! No Craig Cornell jiberish on the subject? Well, that’s a first :)

    • August 15, 2018 at 1:09 pm
      Captain Planet says:
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      It’s coming, just be patient. He’ll be citing the same data he always does which many of us have shown him is misleading. There are harmful consequences of choosing to use this drug, of course. There are with any intoxicant one ingests. MJ was legal in this country before and it will be again. Like Craig commenting on this article, it’s just a matter of time.



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