PM’s marijuana legalization arguments don’t add up

By Letter to the Editor on May 12, 2018.

Justin Trudeau is the most radical and socially destructive prime minister the Liberal Party has ever saddled the west with. His arguments for marijuana legalization just do not add up.

Trudeau says he wants to make it harder for children to access marijuana. However his plan is to let adults grow up to four plants at home. The average 12-year-old will find it easier to raid the family pot plot than to search for a drug dealer on the street.

The term “medical marijuana” is an oxymoron like “life-saving beer.” There are no clinically proven benefits from smoking. Marijuana smoke is much more harmful than tobacco smoke and, as Jeremy Appel’s March 31 editorial (“Tory arguments on pot legalization don’t add up”) points out, it slows people down intellectually.

According to Greg Cote’s letter on April 26, “The practical way to remove criminals from the marijuana business is to legalize it and to impose government controls, just like the business and production and sale of alcohol.” (“Legal marijuana takes dealers off the street”)

Repeal of prohibition, however, did not remove the criminal element from the production, distribution, and sale of alcohol; it allowed them to carry on in the business without fear of prosecution. Samuel Bronfman’s booze business began with bootlegging and became lucrative with repeal. Trudeau has promised to pardon drug dealers. They will, no doubt, become familiar faces in the new legalized drug trade.

Del Egan

Medicine Hat

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