With the topic about what's going with Dutch politics regarding weed I'd like to tell you guys about what's going on here in Canada, because frankly I'm quite concerned. Many years ago I was one of many who helped our current Prime Minister get into office and now I'm seeing things in this man and he has to go. A couple of time's now his party has tried to push through a tough on crime bill and each time, just by sheer luck, it did not proceed far enough due to a forced election and such. Well now he's trying again and has somehow, without hardly any mention in the press or anything, has had it passed through Senate and the next step is the final to make it law. Part of the bill regards growing weed and he wants to take a U.S style "War on Drugs" approach and have mandatory minimum sentences of 6 months for growing more than 5 plants and even tougher if you make hash or edibles.
This is where it gets scary to me. Recently I learned about how U.S. prisons are being run privately. This set off an alarm in me that I can't shake. Immediately I thought about how any business needs to drum up business, and continue drumming up business, for the sake of business, and I wondered, when your business is housing criminals then how do you drum up that kind of business? This is like a plot to a freaky future Sci-fi story.Well then I find out that part of the tough on crime approach our leader is taking requires millions to built a whack of new prisons. Well I bet a new bill like the one he's proposing would insure that there is enough business to recuperate the money, which I highly doubt is all he's interested in doing. Anyway I'm really hoping the other parties are going to force an election here in the next couple of months, which it's sounding like, so that maybe it get's stalled and/or shelved long enough to prevent this proposed madness. How is it that these highly intelligent people can be so lacking in common sense is beyond me.
