Senate Committee quotes on Cannabis.......the Canadian Senate eh
The latest Senate Report says legalize cannabis (like tomatos)
Here are just a few selected quotes from Canada's Senators (penned after
spending years interviewing all the experts and studying all the historical
and scientific documentation that they could dig up,) which you can find in
the final report of the Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs.
"We were told that drugs were made criminal because they are dangerous.
Analysis of debates in Parliament and in media accounts clearly shows how
far this is from truth. When cannabis was introduced in the legislation on
narcotics in 1923, there was no debate, no justification, in fact many
members did not even know what cannabis was."
"Early drug legislation was largely based on a moral panic, racist sentiment
and a notorious absence of debate"
"In effect, the main social costs of cannabis are a result of public policy
choices, primarily its continued criminalization, while the consequences of
its use represent a small fraction of the social costs attributable to the
use of illegal drugs."
"The international drug control conventions are, at least with respect to
cannabis, an utterly irrational restraint that has nothing to do with
scientific or public health considerations."
"... if there was so much concern about public health based on how dangerous
"drugs" are, one has to wonder why tobacco and alcohol are not on the list
of controlled substances."
"When cannabis was included in the international conventions in 1925, there
was no knowledge of its effects"
"We should state this clearly once and for all, for public good: it is time
to stop this crusade."
The records of our own government's deliberations and its US-led
machinations within the UN shows that marijuana prohibition was a clear and
reprehensible fraud, and it still is. Probably the most expensive fraud
undertaken in all of human history.
Nevermind this "we must not encourage marijuana use" argument. No one is
encouraging it, and activists only want the freedom to decide for themselves
what they do with their bodies.
I submit that we first ought to address a far more important issue, and so
did several of our Senators:
We must not condemn, steal from, imprison and kill our citzens and knowingly
endanger our police, for the sake of what we all should know to be a
bald-faced lie. (thank you Mr. Muirhead)
roger m roeder kitchener ontario
Here are just a few selected quotes from Canada's Senators (penned after
spending years interviewing all the experts and studying all the historical
and scientific documentation that they could dig up,) which you can find in
the final report of the Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs.
"We were told that drugs were made criminal because they are dangerous.
Analysis of debates in Parliament and in media accounts clearly shows how
far this is from truth. When cannabis was introduced in the legislation on
narcotics in 1923, there was no debate, no justification, in fact many
members did not even know what cannabis was."
"Early drug legislation was largely based on a moral panic, racist sentiment
and a notorious absence of debate"
"In effect, the main social costs of cannabis are a result of public policy
choices, primarily its continued criminalization, while the consequences of
its use represent a small fraction of the social costs attributable to the
use of illegal drugs."
"The international drug control conventions are, at least with respect to
cannabis, an utterly irrational restraint that has nothing to do with
scientific or public health considerations."
"... if there was so much concern about public health based on how dangerous
"drugs" are, one has to wonder why tobacco and alcohol are not on the list
of controlled substances."
"When cannabis was included in the international conventions in 1925, there
was no knowledge of its effects"
"We should state this clearly once and for all, for public good: it is time
to stop this crusade."
The records of our own government's deliberations and its US-led
machinations within the UN shows that marijuana prohibition was a clear and
reprehensible fraud, and it still is. Probably the most expensive fraud
undertaken in all of human history.
Nevermind this "we must not encourage marijuana use" argument. No one is
encouraging it, and activists only want the freedom to decide for themselves
what they do with their bodies.
I submit that we first ought to address a far more important issue, and so
did several of our Senators:
We must not condemn, steal from, imprison and kill our citzens and knowingly
endanger our police, for the sake of what we all should know to be a
bald-faced lie. (thank you Mr. Muirhead)
roger m roeder kitchener ontario
