Drug rehab centers in Alberta (marijuana)
http://www.drugrehab.ca/alberta.html
"Alberta's Ongoing Drug Problems
The province of Alberta has been battling continuous drug problems that are mainly all fueled from the many gang problems that the province is also dealing with. The province Justice Minister indicated that the addicts that are using everything from pot to crack play a major role of the gang problems and are not part of the solution. Alberta has been taking measures to stiffen it legislation and drug laws, and for example plans to not take a loose look at marijuana, because many have criticized that marijuana should be legal. The province has started no official talks about going easy on weed. In Alberta there are 54 different gangs operating, who all form to make money off of the illegal drug trade, mainly cocaine. In Calgary there are more than twelve dozen unsolved gang related crimes and even more drive by shootings. The majority of these crimes are drug related and this affects many innocents. Alberta spends 95% of its gang funding on policing and corrections, rather than early intervention."
http://www.drugrehab.ca/alberta/calgary.html
"Marijuana Addiction in Calgary
Marijuana is a very popular drug in Calgary as it is very cheap and easy to come by. There are many false assumptions when it comes to marijuana. Although there are some medicinal values related to marijuana consumption, people often forget about the addictive nature of marijuana. Although it isn't as bad as some of the stronger drugs, people can still develop a psychological addiction to marijuana.
Furthermore, marijuana producers and dealers often deal in very big amounts of marijuana. For example, two homes in the beginning of 2009 were searched and the people were charged with marijuana production with intent to sell. The police force found more than a thousand pot plants in each houses, for a total value of around 3.5 million dollars. And many other cannabis busts are often between a million and two million dollars in pot plants. So this shows just how available marijuana is in Calgary. The police report that each year, they find and condemn around 100 marijuana growing operations."
Free Marc Emery
So what?
If a substance is largely innocuous or at least not so deblitating that one is unable to function in society, if it's not prohibitively expensive or PROHIBITED BY LAWS which are *entirely* debilitating and destructive to ones ability to function in society..to make the decision that the legal status quo is the right decision for anyone anywhere at all...is to be clearly identified as someone coming from an irrational bias that clouds their ability to think with any cognitive depth or skill whatsoever!
Simply being addicted to something means absolutely nothing if that substance is freely available and cheap. If water was made illegal, all the very same things seen being done by mindless LEOs now, would also be seen in regard to the acquisition and use of water! Or food...or a quiet place to take a leak!
No. Addiction as a social stigma in and of itself is entirely a conservative value cast on it due its appearence in their lives as a non-traditional way of doing whatever. As such they will do the same even if it was already known that this new inebriant had no ill effects whatsoever. It's not traditional, it produces unknown to them) behaviors, and as such must be rejected for use by all societies members. Period.
And because they also feel that only someone of poor social status would indulge in a drug, authoritarian LEOs will feel perfectly justified in busting heads and destroying the lives of anyone they catch doing this harmless drug. Why? Because the problem is actually the rest of societies present gullibility over their self-righteous posing as constructive members of society.
I know this based on years of research into the motivations of political conservatives and the social-dominance oriented people they follow so blindly.
It was exactly also (and only) RWA-SDO German who told the Nuremberg courts they had done nothing wrong by enforcing the laws and values of their society's leaders.
But no More... Jigs Up! Here's a small sample from the mountains of research now available that had previously been suppressed for general distribution by media companies worried about losing a significant number of conservative client-consumers should they be blamed for passing on scientific evidence of how truly bizarre little minds have always been but had successfully hidden away by blaming social ills on "homos, druggies, niggers, spics" and all the other stereotypes conservatives have used to blame others for their own inability to think rationally about life.
"It appears that conservatism has pathological dimensions manifested in violence and distorted psycho-sexual development" (Boshier, 1983, p. 159). This is supported by a study conducted by Walker, Rowe, and Quincey (1993) in which there was a direct correlation between authoritarianism and sexually aggressive behavior. An investigation done by Muehlenhard (1988) revealed that rape justification and aggression toward subordinate individuals was much higher in traditional (conservative personality) than non-traditional personalities."
"Authoritarianism and religious fundamentalism were positively correlated, with scores on authoritarianism significantly related to those on ethnic and racial prejudice, hostility toward homosexuals, and punitiveness in sentencing (Wylie & Forest, 1992). According to Parker (1990)such dogmatism and orthodox belief were incompatible with ethical acuity."
McClosky (1958) noted that, "Conservatism is not the doctrine of the intellectual elite or of the more intelligent segments of the population, but the reverse. By every measure available to us, conservative beliefs are found most frequently among the uninformed, the poorly educated, and the less intelligent" (p. 38)."
So go away. Now.