🚀 go-pugleaf

Lawrence Lee (lalee@vcn.bc.ca) wrote:
: Stephen Kawamoto (sage@vanbc.wimsey.com) wrote:
: : each potential alcoholic is a megaloser by default since the LCB is your 
: : drug dealer. each tobacco smoker is a megalose for the same reasons 
: : except  all them tobacco comapnies are your drug dealer(s).  and both 
: : tobacco and alcohol kill more people than pot ever did. more pot smokers 
: : have died at the hands of police than from the drug itself. more pot 
: : smokers die an untimely death in prison yet most pot smokers are not 
: : criminals *except* in the eyes of the law.

: (1) How many pot smokers are there in comparison to tobacco and alcohol 
: "users." (without counting the people twice). 

about 72% of Canadians over 14 drink alcohol, 20% tobacco and 5% pot.
cant say about not counting twice.  stats vary.  some say pot use has 
gone up, others say it's gone down.  It seems about half the 17 yr olds 
have used it in B.C.  - but the use for people aged 15 and over is 
between 7 and 12%.

: Because if there is a huge number of tobacco/alcohol users in comparison 
: to pot users then it really isn't a fair comparison... it's like saying x 
: city with 10 people only has 1 person die a year, but y city with 
: 1,000,000 people has 20,000 people die a year.. assuming that x city is 
: more healthy or something is illogical.. right?

Actually for the given population that smoke pot, *none* of them died as 
a direct result of pot smoking, though if you smoke pot in a bad part of 
town, then you will stand a greater risk of getting mugged, stabbed or 
beaten during the normal pursuit of grass.  If you resist arrest for 
possession, then you stand a greater risk of being mishandled by the 
police in Vancouver while in their custody.  However, you should fight 
any conviction relating to marijuana as the law regarding marijuana 
*does* violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Only in the case of Marijuana is the law specifically written to infringe 
on the civil rights of marijuana users.  It has been this way for 73 years.

END THE CULTURAL GENOCIDE!

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