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Isn't that his plan, though, to make us all stoned and drunk as much as possible to ignore what he's doing to our province?
He’s definitely trying to distract from more serious issues just like he did with his “buck a beer” campaign.
I'm almost convinced Trudeau did the weed in the beginning for similar reasons. Though I support what Doug is doing here, and what Trudeau did regarding weed, I do like to entertain the conspiracy theory thinking too. The less sober society is the easier it is to make bad policy decisions without as much pushback :D
We legalized weed because a) people who got in at the ground floor got rich, and b) it'd hopefully get everyone to forget about his other keystone promise: electoral reform.
Fuckers like Fantino who spent decades demonizing and criminalizing us, making all sorts of outrageous moral judgements towards us, warping public policy and brainwashing the olds, but then he's poised with millions of dollars to exploit us the moment it's legal.
And Bill Blair. And more than a few others.
I don't really have any skin in the cannabis game either way, but our ethics regulations needed serious work, because a lot of well-connected people just coincidentally made a lot of money on it.
I'd also add that this is why legalization happened, but electoral reform didn't: no rich folks, nor anyone in the LPC and CPC hierarchy, was going to get rich off of electoral reform.
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