I'm a smoker, I've been smoking cigarettes for a long time. I remember being able to smoke just about anywhere, restaurants, hospitals, planes, buses, buildings of all types.
Cigarettes were cheap, three dollars a pack and just about everyone I knew smoked as well. Most of my group and the people we knew only smoked cigarettes and not a lot of them smoked pot.
I'm not sure exactly when it happened but it seemed very sudden that people were complaining about second hand smoke and all the health risks associated with it. After that the government jumped on board and no one was allowed to smoke inside buildings anymore, and then we had to be so many feet from a doorway, and the list goes on.
After the laws were in place a new type of control was made into law where all cigarette companies had to depict the horrors of smoking by putting disgusting pictures of your lungs and or face showing the effects of long term smoking, these depictions had to be on all cigarette packages in an effort to try to curb people from starting to smoke and to get current smokers to quit.
After that plan was implemented and in full force they then decided that all flavored cigarettes should be banned as well because children were tempted by the flavor.
The government and the people of this country have been trying and succeeding in curbing the use of cigarettes in Canada.
My question then is: Why the hell is the government legalizing pot for human consumption in Canada?
There are going to be smoking bars for pot use built, edibles being made laced with pot which the media figures is going to generate a huge market and make billions.
All this effort put into getting people to quit smoking and then introduce and legalize pot for people to smoke seems like a ludicrous idea to me. Sure you could argue the health benefits of pot but there are ads back in the day advertising smoking as healthy, depicting a doctor enjoying a smoke. Cigarettes were healthy too once, as doctors claimed.
Is second hand smoke from pot not going to bother anyone? Does it somehow not catch fire if thrown into a trash can or out the window? Does it not blacken your lungs? Is it not addictive?
Money money money money and greedy F%^$ing politicians. Is the answer.
Scott Goerz
