12 Oct 04
-Over 45,000 Canadians die each year from tobacco. [Source]
-It was estimated that 6,507 Canadians died in 1995 due to alcohol consumption.
-The total number of deaths attributed to ALL illicit drugs in Canada in 1995 is estimated at 804.
-There has never been a documented death as the result of ingesting marijuana. It is physically impossible to overdose from marijuana.
Now my question is : Should we eliminate the sale & use of tobacco?
D.
12 Oct 04
Originally posted by dannypitanyYou think thats a lot??? 400,000 Americans died last year because of tobacco! And I don't think it should be banned. Its Kentuckys main cash crop!
-Over 45,000 Canadians die each year from tobacco. [Source]
-It was estimated that 6,507 Canadians died in 1995 due to alcohol consumption.
-The total number of deaths attributed to ALL illicit drugs in Canada in 1995 is estimated at 804.
-There has never been a documented death as the result of ingesting marijuana. It is physically impossible to over ...[text shortened]... ose from marijuana.
Now my question is : Should we eliminate the sale & use of tobacco?
D.
12 Oct 04
Originally posted by dannypitanyWouldn't work because tobacco would go on the Black Market, and that would hurt Canada and help the US tobacco grower...besides, don't you feel Canada is socialist enough? Why have another item that some people enjoy condemned? What next, food? How many people die as a result of eating fattening food? Are you going to suggest banning pizza, icecream, Canadian Bacon?🙄...you'd have a revolt there for sure 😉...in all seriousness, people are responsible enough to decide if they want to die from tobacco; they don't need the gov't telling them that they have to find another way to die...
-Over 45,000 Canadians die each year from tobacco. [Source]
-It was estimated that 6,507 Canadians died in 1995 due to alcohol consumption.
-The total number of deaths attributed to ALL illicit drugs in Canada in 1995 is estimated at 804.
-There has never been a documented death as the result of ingesting marijuana. It is physically impossible to over ...[text shortened]... ose from marijuana.
Now my question is : Should we eliminate the sale & use of tobacco?
D.
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Originally posted by chancremechanicIts just another example George of people not wanting to take responsibility for their actions. People want to smoke, eat junk, or whatever, then when their lives go to * they want to blame someone else for their actions.
Wouldn't work because tobacco would go on the Black Market, and that would hurt Canada and help the US tobacco grower...besides, don't you feel Canada is socialist enough? Why have another item that some people enjoy condemned? W ...[text shortened]... e gov't telling them that they have to find another way to die...
12 Oct 04
I don't smoke marijauna or tobacco, and I don't drink very much. I have watched friends and family members lose themselves in drugs, alcohol, and marijuana, and I have watched so manmy people smoke themselves into a variety of diseases.
As far as I am concerned, marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol. I think it should be legalized. Alcohol is deadly and addictive. people are going to become addictive to anything that is mind altering,. regardless of its legality or illegality. It is a matter of an addictive personality.
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That's right.
If you want to do these things that's fine, just as long as you're paying sufficient tax on them to cover the cost of your eventual and inevitable hospital treatment.
Having said that, passive smoking is a whole bunch of no fun.
Smokers need to have a little consideration for those around them who choose not to smoke.
12 Oct 04
Originally posted by AynatI think the reason Mary Jane was illegalised in the first place was because they couldn't figure out how to tax it.
Legalize. Legislate. Regulate. Tax.
How are they going to tax my plant growing on the balcony for personal consumption?
That's the main problem (from a taxers point of view) with MJ, it grows absolutely everywhere.
I agree 100% that it should be legalised though.
D
12 Oct 04
Originally posted by Ragnorak
I think the reason Mary Jane was illegalised in the first place was because they couldn't figure out how to tax it.
How are they going to tax my plant growing on the balcony for personal consumption?
That's the main problem (from a taxers point of view) with MJ, it grows absolutely everywhere.
I agree 100% that it should be legalised though.
D
It was actually illegalized because of religion. Our forefathers believed smoking weed invited the devil to inhabit your body.
There has been very minimal rationale since for keeping it illegal. I don't smoke it (I don't like inhaling anything but clean air), but I think it should be legal if cigarettes, tobacco, and alcohol are.
-f
12 Oct 04
Originally posted by fierceActually, it was made illegal during the depression era. And it was more of a racist "banning". A great many of Mexican workers who had come to the American southwest smoked marijuana, as did black jazz musicians. The white society blamed them for a lot of crime during those times and marijuana was a scapegoat! Religion really had nothing to do with it.
It was actually illegalized because of religion. Our forefathers believed smoking weed invited the devil to inhabit your body.
There has been very minimal rationale since for keeping it illegal. I don't smoke it (I don't like inhaling anything but clean air), but I think it should be legal if cigarettes, tobacco, and alcohol are.
-f
Regards,
Charlie
12 Oct 04
Originally posted by fierceOur forefathers should have done a practical test. Give forefather A 20 shots of malt whiskey, and forefather B 20 joints and see whose body the devil inhabited. Unless they viewed a giggling person who can't keep his fingers out of the cookie jar as more of a devil than some roaring, drooling ultra violent man with bright red eyes who keeps trying to beat them up.=)
It was actually illegalized because of religion. Our forefathers believed smoking weed invited the devil to inhabit your body.
There has been very minimal rationale since for keeping it illegal. I don't smoke it (I don't like inhaling anything but clean air), but I think it should be legal if cigarettes, tobacco, and alcohol are.
-f
Can anybody think of a good reason why it is kept illegal? Exclude the mind altering effects as if you use this, then alcohol should also be illegal.
D
12 Oct 04
Originally posted by chaswray
Actually, it was made illegal during the depression era. And it was more of a racist "banning". A great many of Mexican workers who had come to the American southwest smoked marijuana, as did black jazz musicians. The white society blamed them for a lot of crime during those times and marijuana was a scapegoat! Religion really had nothing to do with it.
Regards,
Charlie
You may be right...I had read that about the religious devilism some time back on the web somewhere. It would certainly have given the police a good reason to put minorities in jail.
-f