Time to rethink drug policy
The so-called “War on Drugs” has more than just failed. It has spawned a crime culture so much a part of our current civilization that without it we wouldn't recognize our current existence.
It is futile to suggest that you can stop people from finding drugs. If you smugly think that punishing users and traffickers is going to have any effect, you are delusional.
The current rash of fentanyl overdoses, and now that the media reports that our technology makes it even easier for illicit products to be concocted and distributed, demands our governments to act.
Legalize and control the production and distribution, and availability, of all drugs in a systemized manner. Invest the policing/incarceration budgets into product control and rehab.
Our current system is a nightmare. Considering what Portugal (and New Zealand) have initiated in their new approach to human's addictive nature, Canada is unbelievably behind the times.
We will look back on the last 30 years as a societal failure.
Justin Trudeau, are you listening?
–Paul Richards
Learn the rules or stay off the road
I was nearly hit by a car while crossing the street legally at a corner. Another car coming the opposite direction had stopped, but this driver decided to drive around me and honk as if she had the right of way.
For the benefit of ignorant drivers (and some cyclists) who don't know the law, there is a crosswalk at every intersection whether lines are painted on the pavement or not. If you don't know the rules or you are too much of a bully to think they apply to you, do the rest of us a favour and stay off the road until you come to your senses.
–Anonymous
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