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Well it is a problematic issue. It is more or less murder the only difference bewteen a new born and an unborn is how developed. Its not like its not alive and kicking or having nueral development while in the womb. I think that 1st trimestre may be more cellular,.. but after about 8 weeks you enter the gray area.. and definately by 8 months it is pretty much murder. If kicking a woman in the womb and killing her wanted baby doesn't carry a murder charge it is just offensive.

Drug use in the Netherlands is actually fairly low, they are quite conservative when it comes to drugs even though it has been somewhat legalized. check out this from CBS. http://www.cbsnews.c...62-4222322.html

boo, end this bloody censorship. People have freedom of expression. Just hold them to their expression. Get the censors the hell out of debate. Its suppose to be a free country. Call a mule a mule but don't muzzle a mule that has something to say that is constructive. Some things people do deserve a vulgar, violent or even lethal response. Acknolwegdge that. Stop pussifying the country. Professional and respectful environments are a two way street.

Pot is a plant, people should be able to grow plants. Pot should be smokable in private residences where there are no minors or people who do not consent to second hand pot smoke. I think though as a food product it should be 100% legal. Of course driving, operating firearms etc.. should be restricted. It is one of few things that opens up more of the brain due to canaboid content. It is also safer than buying pot from dealers who may lace their drugs enhancing the gateway concept. Now as far as organized crime that runs Canada they don't want it legalized because it will cut in on their business, and so it won't be legalized not because pot is bad but because people make money off of it. and use it to get people to do serious drugs like cocaine that have some of the same habit like the crack pipe, opium etc... If it grows in nature it should be legal to use but everything should be legal but dangerous drugs should be controlled. We should not leave dangerous drugs to non professionals we need to insure people are trained to safely administer drugs. Pot grows really easy but you have to find a seeded plant in nature or otherwise to grow. The penalities are ridiculous though. Pot is pot. If people are only using it for their own use, multiple year jail terms are just stupid, any jail time is stupid. It is a mostly harmless plant. It is super culturally sensationalized... it is a plant that makes you think different, what is the deal? True though I don't recommend this being publically legal as of the smoke factor but for ingestion or private recretational property use among consenting adults... it is just stupid to make this a crime to grow or use. It is only supporting the blackmarket. As far as schizophrenia.. if people wernt' druged up and neglected chances are they'd be able to control their enhanced thought process. Fact is it is how people understand their own thoughts. Afterall schizophrenia is just thoughts. The problem only occurs when people arn't able to compartmentatlize their thought process. Are you braindead? Do you have no creativity, daydreaming or otherwise. The only difference is that you control your thoughts. Have you never thought? How do you right if you don't think about things? The issue is basically just random firings of neurons.. there are reasons for that.. none the less, there is no direct link between smoking pot thought.. ciagrettes have tons of industrial chemicals in there you think maybe that is more likely to cause neuron misfirings than a plant that makes the brain process naturally? industrial produced cigarettes are way more toxic than pot. alchohol is way more toxic than pot. What happens with schiophrenics is they either get locked away and neglected left to their own minds in institutions that are just plain abnormal environments, or they are drugged up so much their brain process is mutted and they are more or less poisoned. It is just refer madness nonsense to suggest pot smokers are schizophrenics. Since probably 80-90% of Canadians have smoked pot, and a very small amount of Canadians are schizophrenics.. I think you are reversing these statistics. Industrial chemicals have a greater chance of causing brain damage than pot. Saying pot is the problem is just uneducated. Drug abuse is a problem but drug use is just like any other medicine. Why starve the body of things it is made for? canaboids are one of the things the brain is specifically designed for it has a use.. god made us to use it. Its been used since like ancient times... http://blog.norml.or...l-cannabinoids/ The pot culture is the problem not the plant. Causual use of pot, especially with safe non carcenogen processes is beneficial if not abused. Like I could see, smoking pot in a public place as a charge, or driving under the influence of drugs which create dangerous driving conditions, or selling pot to minors without parental consent.. all fair game, but growing a plant that god made, and using something that our body is made for? It is like saying don't eat sugar or protein.. Why pay for synthetics at $70,000 and ounce when people can grow their own, if the taxpayer is stuck with those costs.

yeah cause most Canadian Academics wouldnt take a post at Harvard???? Last I understood he lectures at both UofT and Harvard. It doesn't make them unCanadian it makes them not an idiot. I bet he woulnd't have taken it if he were the PM of Canada. Canada is not a prison... you are an idiot if you arn't going to advance your own carear when you work in the private sector. Such an idiotic postion in the OP.