Change marijuana law, but go carefully
Almost 15 per cent of tobacco products used in B.C. are contraband, costing the provincial treasury an estimated $100 million a year in lost tax revenue. It’s a glimpse of what awaits governments in a legalized-marijuana world.
Legalized — or at least decriminalized — marijuana is inevitable. Its widespread use demands that governments regulate, tax and monitor the use of the drug, just as they do tobacco and alcohol. To do otherwise makes no sense.
The war on marijuana is a failure. It comes with high costs and collateral damage, and has done nothing to curb the use. Yes, criminality and violence are associated with marijuana, but those aspects arise from the drug’s illegality, not its effects on the human body. You do not have to endorse the use of marijuana — and we do not — to see sound reasons for changing the law.
Some worry the decriminalization will...
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