[QUOTE] Originally posted here by nihil
[B]Just a couple of points.

We have a subsidised state medical service over here. MS sufferers would almost certainly be receiving disability benefit and free medication, paid for by the British taxpayer. That is why we are more cautious than other countries where you pay for your medication privately.


We've had universal healthcare here for decades...everything is subsidised, even drugs coming up from the US are provided by American Drug Companies at below market values ( by contract with the Canadian Government )especially for the Canadian Market.

They've been debating the decriminalization of pot for more than ten years...even produced packaging for it once ( just like cigarette packs )...I think it was R.J.Renolds in Montreal that designed it, but this was before the the warning fiasco on cigarette packs.

I don't smoke, shoot, pop, or even drink...but I have nothing against any as long as it doesn't affect anyone but the user ( everything is ok in moderation and if you can control it, if you can't moderate or control then don't use).

Health is just the modern excuse that the government wants to use to avoid bearing the cost of putting pot smokers in jail and spending millions of dollars to enforce something that is less of a cramp on society than alcohol and it's side affects from liver and ulcer problems to drunk driving and domestic violence. Alcohol is by far the more costly of the two and creates the more widespread problems. I've yet to meet the person who smokes a bag of weed and goes home and beats his wife and kids, sets fire to the house and runs down the street shooting innocent by-standers.