Quote:
Originally Posted by corporatejay
What is Harper lying about?
|
Maybe "fudging the numbers" is more accurate than "lying", but he's still bull####ting...
He said today: "Most Canadians if you ask them do not want the full legalization of marijuana...".
Here are the numbers from a Department of Justice poll from last summer:
Among the poll’s highlights:
37.3% say marijuana should be legalized;
33.4% want possession of small amounts of marijuana decriminalized, leading to a fine rather than a criminal record;
13.7% say the marijuana laws should stay the same;
12% want penalties increased.
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/ca...alization-poll
So yeah, it doesn't say "most Canadians think it should be legalized" (though more people picked that than anything else), he's using that to say that we should spend more on prohibition and being 'tough on crime'.
Assuming he's using this poll to get his "data", 70% of people in this country want either legalization or a relaxing of the laws. But nope.