What a slimey piece of shit! He goes off about marijuana harming child development and in the same breath says " I know there are some who disagree...that's why we are looking at ticketing options." First, I don't recall a societal outcry to legalize pot smoking for children. Setting age restrictions on certain activities is an accepted method of protecting kids from unnecessary risks. We do it for alcohol and tobacco, we do it for driving, we do it for some sports.The difference is, adults are not denied the freedom to do any of these other risky activities in order to 'save the children' They don't provide any evidence of a epidemic of kids smoking weed, just the tired rhetoric of a government that is clearly out of touch with the people they were elected to SERVE. But it seems the harm to the poor children my pot smoking causes is somehow rectified by cash. Give the cops extortion money on demand and suddenly the risk to child development is eradicated? WTF?
Still waiting for Peter's reply to my email...if he's anything like my mp I'll be waiting awhile! I think I'll send it to some newspapers in Nova Scotia so hopefully they will print it and his constituents can ask him the same questions during the election.
