Hundreds of Canadians with illnesses ranging from AIDS to glaucoma to epilepsy to cancer are using marijuana daily to alleviate medical symptoms and pain. They buy the drug illegally and risk imprisonment because they believe it works. Thousands of Canadians use pot as a recreational drug, convinced, with reason, that it's less harmful than either tobacco or alcohol, both of which are sold under government control and profit. Polls show that a majority of Canadians believe that marijuana should be legalized. Canada's police chiefs want simple possession of pot decriminalized.
Criminalization allows for the printing of money by organized crime interests.
The only proven harmful side-effect of marijuana is its potential to cause bronchitis in regular users. The unwillingness of parliamentarians such as Rock to revisit an absurd law, which has its genesis in ignorance and paranoia, had made criminals out of 600,000 Canadians by 1997 - most of them convicted of simple possession. It's time that the government stopped tinkering with the ridiculous law and scrapped it altogether. We do not own nor are responsible for visitor comments. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 and The Berne Convention on Literary and Artistic Works, Article 10, news clippings on this site are made available without profit for research and educational purposes.