We recently attempted to delay the construction of a cancer centre because we didn't have the money for it. Marijuana is a $6 billion a year industry in BC alone - just in sales tax, that's $300,000,000 extra that could go to roads, hospitals, schools, or Darryl Katz.
Marijuana is certainly not for everyone. It is not risk free. Most of the time, fun costs you.
But in a free-thinking, enlightened society, we have so many more pressing issues than this one. On an individual level, it can be problematic. Given the ease with which one can acquire the stuff, however, and its widespread use regardless of its legality, I think it's reasonably safe to say the walls of our civilization will not come crumbling down should the legalization hammer fall.
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”All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you.”
Rowan Roy W-M - February 15, 2024
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