Warhippy Posted August 22, 2013 Author Share Posted August 22, 2013 Here's my take on it. The stimate is almost $2 billion spent yearly fighting marijuana, and then an additional $4.8 billion spent in both jailing, court fees, policing, staffing etc etc etc all tied in. If we are really looking at almost $7 billion in expenditures and court issues all told fighting a friggin plant we need to re-evaluate things. If the other side of the argument is that taxation could in theory net Canada $3 billion or more in profit from the sale of this plant as well as the added costs of becoming a tourist spot for people like Portugal and Amsterdam for this then the added value is billions more per year./ So in theory "THEORY" savings and profits could net this country over $14 billion ish, free up needed space in prisons, free up much needed spots in courtroom queues, free up staff both in prisons and local and federal law enforcement agencies and also additionally almost fund the entire health care system by itself via money brought in and money saved. If this is what it takes than by all means please go ahead and do it, if nothing else the advertisements would be amazingly funny to watch. Again though, back to the story at hand. I am laughing long and hard at the Conservative caucus claiming he is skirting the law with this admission as we deal with repeated and untold electoral issues, misspending, senatorial theft of tax dollars and of course harper having a known criminal in his top staff twice all while running from a charge of contempt of parliament. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pimpcurtly Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Trudeau being honest about it puts him up a few notches in my book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aGENT Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 No. I'm saying that our 'pot fixes everything' mantra over here is kinda ridiculous. But we are willing to shroud legitimate national problems with the tired and useless pot debate because, derp, we like to smoke up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMapleLaughs Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Again though, back to the story at hand. I am laughing long and hard at the Conservative caucus claiming he is skirting the law with this admission as we deal with repeated and untold electoral issues, misspending, senatorial theft of tax dollars and of course harper having a known criminal in his top staff twice all while running from a charge of contempt of parliament. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilduce39 Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 No. I'm saying that our 'pot fixes everything' mantra over here is kinda ridiculous. But we are willing to shroud legitimate national problems with the tired and useless pot debate because, derp, we like to smoke up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhippy Posted August 22, 2013 Author Share Posted August 22, 2013 Smokescreen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
key2thecup Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 "A puff" ...... why stop at one puff, if your going to come out atleast just say I smoke the dub with them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aGENT Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 I couldn't have said it better myself. It's an issue, but it's not the most important nor will it solve all of our problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aGENT Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 DP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
key2thecup Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Legalization, taxation and reducing police/court/prison resources wasted on it would drastically help budgets at numerous government levels. Some of those tax dollars could/should be spent on health care (particularly real drug abuse problems) and education. So no I don't think it's simply a "smoke screen". I think you're right that there are more facets to those problems as well as other problems that are just as, if not more, important. But I think you dismiss marijuana policy to easily as "unimportant". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inane Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Who said it was or would? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aGENT Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 You know how it works here--you say something and everyone automatically infers from that that you mean the extreme of that. It's the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMapleLaughs Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 I'm still trying to figure out how pot ties into education. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.DirtyDangles Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Trudeau being honest about it puts him up a few notches in my book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aGENT Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 I'm still trying to figure out how pot ties into education. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilduce39 Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Who said it was or would? Gordie forbid we fix A problem even if it won't fix ALL the problems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamero89 Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 No, it's a smokescreen that clouds all the real issues you're referring to, making the entire picture awfully hazy. Budget? Pot. Healthcare? Pot. Education? Pot? Um, no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamero89 Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 I'm still trying to figure out how pot ties into education. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aGENT Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Nobody did, but we really push this issue to the front of the lineup. Nobody said we shouldn't legalize it either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilduce39 Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Why not? It IS an important, multifaceted issue. Actually LOTS of people say that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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