Cannabis is safer than alcohol... isn't it time we treated it that way?
No one has EVER died from an overdose of cannabis. Alcohol causes 2,500 deaths per annum in Cape Town alone.
The Minister of Health can promote a healthy lifestyle all she wants, but her true feelings toward other people can be found in her utterances:
Oh really? What kind of healthy lifestyle is that? What does an inclination to kill oneself indicate? A health lifestyle? Of course not. She seems to be implying that people are being willful when they drink too much, but she conveniently ignores the fact that people are just exercising their free choice and choosing alcohol over and above all others as it is one of only a few drugs which are legally available.
Asked if she would consider an outright ban on alcohol to eliminate alcohol abuse instead of simply increasing prices, she said such a ban was against the Constitution. You have to love people relying on the Constitution without even backing it up with which rights would be infringed upon. In fact there is no right to kill oneself in the Constitution so even there she is incorrect in her assertion that you have the right to kill yourself.
The problem is that you have the right to kill yourself! Cannabis never killed anyone and therefore it is excluded. Any sane rational person would choose cannabis over and above alcohol - excluding the law for a second. Why then is the state against it? Perhaps they want the people to kill each other and die?
Cannabis reduces violence and violent tendencies. This fact in itself is a compelling argument for the release of cannabis from the yolk of prohibition to counter act the negative effects of alcohol.
No one has EVER died from an overdose of cannabis. Alcohol causes 2,500 deaths per annum in Cape Town alone.
The Minister of Health can promote a healthy lifestyle all she wants, but her true feelings toward other people can be found in her utterances:
"You have the right to kill yourself if you want to," she said.
Oh really? What kind of healthy lifestyle is that? What does an inclination to kill oneself indicate? A health lifestyle? Of course not. She seems to be implying that people are being willful when they drink too much, but she conveniently ignores the fact that people are just exercising their free choice and choosing alcohol over and above all others as it is one of only a few drugs which are legally available."I was healthy before I got sick and I am healthy now. If promoting a healthy lifestyle is hypocritical, then I don't know what hypocrisy is."
Perhaps we can rephrase this to read: "I was healthy once... I drank too much... I damaged my liver... I drank in the hospital... I had a transplant... I drink now too... Don't listen to me.. I am hypocrital and a poor example for the whole country... I lie and evade when it suits me so don't expect me to actually do anything constructive.... for example... I haven't even admitted to my past mistakes"
Asked if she would consider an outright ban on alcohol to eliminate alcohol abuse instead of simply increasing prices, she said such a ban was against the Constitution. You have to love people relying on the Constitution without even backing it up with which rights would be infringed upon. In fact there is no right to kill oneself in the Constitution so even there she is incorrect in her assertion that you have the right to kill yourself.
The problem is that you have the right to kill yourself! Cannabis never killed anyone and therefore it is excluded. Any sane rational person would choose cannabis over and above alcohol - excluding the law for a second. Why then is the state against it? Perhaps they want the people to kill each other and die?Cannabis reduces violence and violent tendencies. This fact in itself is a compelling argument for the release of cannabis from the yolk of prohibition to counter act the negative effects of alcohol.
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