Reefer Madness, Canadian Style

The Drug Warriors are out of the woodwork at the Shotgun, following the tragic events in Mayerthorpe. While tackling the tangential issue of Roszko's "grow-op" has given everyone a break from the never ending homosexual marriage posts, the fuzzy logic of social conservatives continues apace.

Starts here, continues here. See if you can understand the operating premises that allow some commenters to rail against nanny-state excesses like smoking by-law enforcement, while in the next breath using battlefield analogies to describe their preferred approach to ending the terrifying scourge of pot growers.

Cosh is about the only one keeping his head on straight on that entire board:

"No doubt the repeal of alcohol Prohibition had its Charles MacDonalds--boobs who stood around saying "Is repeal going to shut down illegal speakeasies? Is it going to stop people from drinking Sterno? Is it going to prevent criminals from serving adulterated liquor to the ordinary consumer? Is it going to stop machine-gun fights between bootleggers in warehouses? Is it going to remove the burden of hypocrisy from physicians who are asked to prescribe therapeutic 'spirits'? Is it going to allow for the creation and growth of rehabilitative societies that can try to cure people of their addictions?"

The question is, what did such people do when repeal actually accomplished all these things? One likes to think they expired of pure shame.

I wouldn't want to raise the ire of any "conservatives" by raising the mere issue of personal freedom to put chemicals in one's body ("Why not target grow-ops?"). It has gone completely unmentioned in this thread; I conclude that fans of the Shotgun by and large, and most inexplicably, regard it as a joke."

What the so-cons fail to realize is that the gun grabbers at the Toronto Star could just as easily exploit the situation to agitate for further restrictions on people's right to own firearms. Surely the principled "conservatives" would recoil in horror at the idea of more emotionally charged legislation being rammed through as a result of the actions of one psychopath. Bill C-68 anyone?
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