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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Experts refute Harper’s claim pot is more dangerous than tobacco 🌿Experts refute Harper’s claim pot is more dangerous than tobacco
Is cannabis, as Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper claims, “infinitely worse” than tobacco, a substance that kills tens of thousands of Canadians each year?
Definitely not, say medical researchers and addiction experts, who are refuting Mr. Harper’s provocative comparison between cigarettes and marijuana.
Mr. Harper has routinely brought up marijuana as a campaign issue, contrasting his government’s tough stance against the drug with the Liberals’ and Greens’ plans to fully legalize it and the NDP’s pledge to at least decriminalize it and study legalization.
When quizzed Saturday on his party’s repeated opposition to making pot legal, Mr. Harper said that tobacco “does a lot of damage” but cannabis “is infinitely worse and it is something that we do not want to encourage.”
The Canadian Cancer Society says smoking tobacco continues to be the leading preventable cause of premature deaths in the country, claiming about 37,000 lives each year. The non-profit...
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