How surprising that a poll conducted by a marijuana company (news, January 10) claims to find that 60 per cent of people want to legalise the drug.
A poll of speedsters would find that unlimited speed limits should be legalised, too, but that doesn't make it right.
We already have high mental health issues, high drug-related road statistics, drug-related workplace accidents, drug-affected children in schools... the list goes on. Legalising any drug will not fix these issues, in my opinion.
I understand that Portugal decriminalised drugs for personal use but kept all their other drug laws untouched and had everything in place to refer users to medical centres as well as staff to support addicts and so on. Strict possession limits were established. The war on manufacturers and pushers continues.
They did not legalise drugs. Here we are, as usual, blindly going down the "legalise" path because Big Drug – the equivalent of Big Tobacco, in my view – want in on what they can see is Big Money regardless of the huge social and personal effects on their users and the innocent population.
