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Originally Posted by #-3
On the other hand, in an era when the government is trying to take measures to reduce smoking, improve sun safety/fitness awareness, legislate against over use of salts and bad sugars in our food.
Why are the moving in to opposite direction on this?
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I believe that governments / society are moving the opposite direction on this because of the insane costs for incarceration, labeling people as felons and significantly damaging futures and reducing overcrowding of prisons. It is more of a cost benefit analysis that I believe is moving in the right direction because, as the article points out, funding generated from taxation can and will be used for social benefit programs focusing on prevention.
And while logically one would think, 'but why go harder on cigarettes and then the opposite direction on marijuana?', cigarettes aren't going to be criminalized. People aren't going to be put in jail over smoking cigarettes or labeled a felon. So looks to me like governments are trying to marry the treatment of how both substances are used. At the end of the day, how different are tobacco and cannabis?
I think it really is only a matter of time before it becomes legal in Canada one day.