Would he support making it legal? Saying someone with a small amount of marijuana shouldn't go to jail says nothing about the legal status of marijuana -- very few people with small amounts go to jail now and yet the 'war on drugs' continues:
http://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20120421/mulcair-clarifies-stance-pot-decriminalization-120421/20120421/?hub=MontrealHome
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Excellent point, James. Paul Martin's proposal was clear and quite specific. It even allowed for home cultivation.
Mulcair's policy is shrouded in weasel words. That speaks volumes.
Mulcair has also been repeating some of the main reefer madness myths (e.g. "potent pot")
Potent pot is more myth than reality. See for example:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/hey_wait_a_minute/2002/11/the_myth_of_potent_pot.html
However, even if one assumes that potent pot is a reality it is certainly nothing to be concerned about. Indeed, saying that potent pot is reason for keeping marijuana illegal is akin to saying that alcohol should be banned because gin has higher alcohol content than beer. It makes no sense. The pharmacological affects of consuming 1 "chemically supercharged" joint, as various US attorneys like to say, versus x number of "dad's joints" would be no different if the amount of THC consumed is the same. As for consumption, just as people do not drink the same volume of gin as beer, the higher the THC level in pot the less people consume. Hence, ironically more potent pot may be a welcome development. After all, one of the most prominent health effect related to marijuana, if not the most, is that it is usually smoked. The more potent the pot, the less people have to smoke to achieve the same high. Lester Grinspoon of Harvard Medical School concurs, so does Mitch Earleywine of the University of Southern California and so does UCLA's Mark Kleiman.
That said, if potency is the concern, then it should be legalized. After all, the only way to regulate the potency of pot is to legalize it. Moreover, so long as the drug is illegal, producers will seek to increase potency. The higher the potency the smaller the package the smaller the package the less likely they will get caught.
Finally, the attempt to scare parents that have grown up on marijuana by distinguishing between potent pot and “your dad's marijuana” is too clever by half. After all, it begs the following question. If today's marijuana is truly different in kind from "dads marijuana", would it be ok to legalize "dad's marijuana", i.e., low potency pot?
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