Agreed completely in principle, Gulo ... each person's body is their own, to do with as they will ... got to have it illegal to burn a whole bale of pot on a city lot, of course, because it could stain the whites on your neighbours' clotheslines, but that's well covered under environmental law, don't need a special statute for it
On the practical side, there was a mountie interviewed a few days ago, he figured that 'decriminalisation' would result in more, not less, harassment and damage to young people .... reason being, as things stand the mounties basically do not enforce the law much, since they realise it is absurdly draconian and an intrusion on the liberty of the person ..... but if it was only a misdemeanour, he figured there would be a lot more charges, then people would be jailed for non-payment of fines .... he said in other jurisdictions [can't recall where], this has resulted in three times the imprisonment than had the previous felony classification |
