The DEA Should Be DOA In Canada.
Regardless of one's personal beliefs regarding the use, abuse and legality of marijuana, the fact that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency is bullying its way into Canada's legal arena should be cause for outrage.
The DEA wants to extradite Marc Emery, a well-known proponent of legalizing marijuana use in Canada, for selling marijuana seeds in the U.S. In Canada he has been arrested 13 times, and spent 3 months in jail. In the U.S. he faces a 20 year sentence if convicted.
Canadians are not Americans. We are not a very large 51st state of the Union, and we are more dissimilar than similar. We cannot change the right-wing menace that rules the White House, we do not offer advice to the Republicans, or criticize all the half-assed initiatives and immoral and/or illegal military actions instigated by Dubya and his band of bloodthirsty goons. We can't stop the American government from trampling the rights of its citizens.
We sure as hell can stop the American government from trampling the rights of Canadians, though.
The DEA should be told, directly, bluntly and forcefully, to go back to their own country and stay there. Marijuana has been legalized in several countries, and it will eventually be legalized here, as well. The DEA can continue to preach about the evils of pot, it can huff and puff (as long as it doesn't inhale) and make mountains out of molehills, but it needs to confine itself to its own backyard.
Canadians don't need help from Uncle Sam or any of his henchmen. We are a country of smarter, shrewder, more sophisticated people, and we know what is best for us. Americans really need to fix the multitude of problems their own country faces before barging in, uninvited, to a land that, for the most part, has its shit together.
Maybe they all need to experience the healing power of BC bud.
The DEA wants to extradite Marc Emery, a well-known proponent of legalizing marijuana use in Canada, for selling marijuana seeds in the U.S. In Canada he has been arrested 13 times, and spent 3 months in jail. In the U.S. he faces a 20 year sentence if convicted.
Canadians are not Americans. We are not a very large 51st state of the Union, and we are more dissimilar than similar. We cannot change the right-wing menace that rules the White House, we do not offer advice to the Republicans, or criticize all the half-assed initiatives and immoral and/or illegal military actions instigated by Dubya and his band of bloodthirsty goons. We can't stop the American government from trampling the rights of its citizens.
We sure as hell can stop the American government from trampling the rights of Canadians, though.
The DEA should be told, directly, bluntly and forcefully, to go back to their own country and stay there. Marijuana has been legalized in several countries, and it will eventually be legalized here, as well. The DEA can continue to preach about the evils of pot, it can huff and puff (as long as it doesn't inhale) and make mountains out of molehills, but it needs to confine itself to its own backyard.
Canadians don't need help from Uncle Sam or any of his henchmen. We are a country of smarter, shrewder, more sophisticated people, and we know what is best for us. Americans really need to fix the multitude of problems their own country faces before barging in, uninvited, to a land that, for the most part, has its shit together.
Maybe they all need to experience the healing power of BC bud.
posted by Alphamutt at 10:45 PM
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