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R. vs Mernaugh - Judge Taliano (Ontario Superior Court of Justice)
CanLII - 2011 ONSC 2121 (CanLII)
The nuts and bolts of it:
Get it however you please until a court rules otherwise.
DISPOSITION
[345] For the foregoing reasons, this court declares that:
1. The Marihuana Medical Access Regulations, SOR/2001-226 and the prohibitions against the possession and production of cannabis (marihuana) contained in sections 4 and 7 respectively of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, S.C. 1996, C. 19 are constitutionally invalid and of no force and effect;
2. This declaration of invalidity is suspended for a period of three (3) months;
penny
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I can't post pics till Monday
mrplunkey
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It's not a matter of opposition -- guys like Stalin,Castro and Mao fixed that part with guns. It's the fact that they still all spectacularly failed that makes fighting consolidation a terrible idea.
It seems like eliminating pot would be a small price to pay in the name of helping the poor.
I'm against the use of drugs, including marijuana, mainly because of my own personal experiences. I don't think they are beneficial to life.
But I don't really think pot causes poverty, rather, do not poverty and other traumatic/painful life experiences cause somebody to want to ease their pain with drugs?
I think this is where the addiction comes in. When life is too much, and we want to escape, then we are trapped trying to keep this chemically induced mental and physical equilibrium. Trying to stay happy and well. And failing for the most part because what goes up must come down. The brain changes and rewires itself to crave the artificial stimulation. It won't produce the natural highs it used to. Your brain stops making serotonin, but it overproduces the little places that receive the serotonin so it produces that craving even harder.
People who just recreationally use pot are NOT the people we really have to worry about. It's the people who become addicts to alcohol, cocaine, opiates, meth, barbiturates. These are the people who commit crimes, spend their rent money, cause families to break up, neglect their children, and become unproductive drains on society.
It may well be that pot is a gateway drug. It was in my circumstance. But if somebody can stick to pot, and not use it more than once in a while, I don't see the immediate harm.
But I don't really think pot causes poverty, rather, do not poverty and other traumatic/painful life experiences cause somebody to want to ease their pain with drugs?
I think this is where the addiction comes in. When life is too much, and we want to escape, then we are trapped trying to keep this chemically induced mental and physical equilibrium. Trying to stay happy and well. And failing for the most part because what goes up must come down. The brain changes and rewires itself to crave the artificial stimulation. It won't produce the natural highs it used to. Your brain stops making serotonin, but it overproduces the little places that receive the serotonin so it produces that craving even harder.
People who just recreationally use pot are NOT the people we really have to worry about. It's the people who become addicts to alcohol, cocaine, opiates, meth, barbiturates. These are the people who commit crimes, spend their rent money, cause families to break up, neglect their children, and become unproductive drains on society.
It may well be that pot is a gateway drug. It was in my circumstance. But if somebody can stick to pot, and not use it more than once in a while, I don't see the immediate harm.
mrplunkey
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That's the problem with both pot and alcohol. If some of the people didn't have a drug-induced escape, they would be forced to face their circumstances. That's one way you get perpetual poverty -- you can't rise above your situation when you are stoned 24/7.
Believe me, I would be happy if no one used drugs too. I agree with you that it is hard to change your circumstances if you are not clean and sober.
And true too that drugs can bring somebody formerly well-off to to poverty through a bad addiction. We've all heard the stories of the banker/stockbroker/ trust fund inheritor blowing all their cash to finance a cocaine addiction.
But I don't truly believe that pot can impair somebody's work ethic enough to bring them into systemic poverty. Other drugs yes, pot no. It's a bit of a kiddy drug. You could fail out of school on it, maybe lose a job on it, but not be totally unable to care for yourself and fall into poverty.
I'll wait!
Its a pretty big price considering all of the beneficial uses, and the fact that it does not, in fact, make anyone poor, where it does, in fact, reduce pain and suffering directly.
