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And I call BS on your conclusion. There is nothing proven in that article, merely lots of different supposition. You know nothing about the circumstances in that article, and the best the article could claim was 'alleged.' Second hand smoke kills a holocaust every year. The same logic applies, you don't drink on the job. You don't operate heavy machinery while stoned. That's no excuse to ban cannabis. No there are serious risks with misuse, not its use. Anything can be misused. If you misuse water you can die, and thousands die from misusing water every year.

Nothing could be more obvious. Between alcohol and tobacco over a million are killed annually, a holocaust. Deaths from marijuana annually 0.

Not even bath salts make it virtually certain a person is going to harm anyone and bath salts are about the worse you can get.

heh his name is Kilgore? Imo a reference to Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5

This coming from the guys who just cut 360,000$ anually from UN drought and famine relief?

DogOnPorch say the NVA won sooner, then about 2 decades of the Vietnam war could have been avoided and hundreds of thousands saved. Instead there was 2 unneccessary decades of brutal fighting and carpet bombing that also destabilized and brought in surrounding countries into the slaughter. Not at all. Sihanouk brought the Khmer Rouge in to retake Cambodia from the Americans. However then they turned on Sihanouk and took power for themselves.

Yes, that is true. At the end of the day though the millions dead in the conflict, the result of the consequences of western imperialism in indo-china rules out any higher ground for the west and especially the US 'escalation' and spread of the conflict to the levels which saw those numbers killed.

Who divided Vietnam? Europeans. The Vietnamese had fought the French out then America thought it was going to take over the job of controlling Vietnam. Dumb.

But it fully highlights my point. The US meddling in international affairs of other countries through military and covert intervention often leads to destabilization of whole regions and nations which has often led them into falling into a downward spiral of barbarity and mass murder and genocide. If that's the consequence of arrogantly trying to determine the future of other countries then its simply bad policy.

Yes, and none of that would have happened had the US not overthrown Prince Sihanouk. Incidentally it was the North Vietnamese who ended up taking out Pol Pot, while the US was still defending the Khmer Rouge's UN seat years after.

The numbers killed in the Indo-China wars are in the hundreds of thousands. There are no exaggerations. And you can guarantee the napalm used on the little girl was from Dow Chemical. Pol Pot came into power after the US overthrew the king of Cambodia in a coup detat. So you can chalk that one up for good old US intervention as well.

No it certainly isn't. Add up the #s from the Indo-China wars. The carpet bombing of Cambodia alone would fit those numbers.

Canadians are being spied on too: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/06/12/f-communication-security-establishment-canada.html

DogonPorch: World War 2 was more than 50 years ago. The only alternative reality is the one you invented for me. The opinions you attribute to me are not mine. They are your mistaken impression of mine.

The Ban on Psychedelic Drug Research Cripples Science: "Restricting the use of psychoactive drugs in research represents the most serious case of scientific censorship since the Catholic Church banned the works of Copernicus and Galileo, some scientists say." http://news.yahoo.com/banning-psychedelic-drugs-hurts-research-scientists-171601009.html

If you count that number as over the last 50 years it would be more than accurate.

The Canadian Senate has to be one of the most corrupt institutions on earth. If anyone can tell me anything the senate has actually done in 25 years I'll be surprised.

If prostitution was illegal. The Senate would have to be disbanded.

That is the point, your seatbelt analogy was in response to my comment about a person's sovereignty over their own body. A seatbelt is external to the body so its not an analogy that fits my comment. A seatbelt is a logical regulation in a social democracy, and it does not infringe on anyone's sovereignty over their own body.

What substance could anyone take to make it virtually certain they are going to harm someone?

When was the last time you put a seat belt or a helmet into your body?

Do I look like I'm dripping in gold? I didn't know that you spoke for the other readers here. Hello I had that epiphany long before I said the Afghan war was a bad idea long before it had even begun.

Yes it should be legal. How can one outlaw the world's oldest profession? And how can politicians of all people be self-righteous about prostitution!!! I think Prostitution is already legal in Canada. Its solicitation that is illegal if I have that correct. The solicitation bit is an absurd technicality, and it should be removed.

Yes, all 'drugs' should be legal. A person has a right to sovereignty over their own body and mind, so long as they aren't harming others. To deny others that right is to engage in tyranny and mind control.

No when you target a funeral its no longer collateral damage. Its targeting innocents, just like terrorists. Murder is murder. One of these days you'll have an epiphany and realize it too. I just hope when you do that you can deal with it without causing more harm to yourself and others.