Greetings from Victoria! I would like to share with your readers my
feelings about the Drug Paraphenalia Law (section 462.2 of the criminal
code) which reads:
Everyone who knowingly imports into Canada, exports from Canada, manufactures, promotes or sells instruments or literature for illicit drug use is guilty of an offense ... etc.
The reason I have underlined the words "everyone" and "promotes" is because
our so-called system has overlooked the fact that they, the System itself,
fall under this Act and should not get away with promoting the use of
illicit drugs.
That is exactly what is happening. Our system hands out hypodermic needles
(paraphernalia) by the truck load for the sole purpose of shooting heroin
and what-have-you - yet it is perceived as an act of mercy because it
can be justified!
Yet the pot users have been trying to justify the innocence of marijuana
for 30 years, and still today a toke-stone can put you in jail! There's no
comparison between pot and heroin! A harmless pipe cannot be tolerated, but
a hypodermic needle that supports a serious drug problem is obviously
legal!? Does that make sense? Or could it be possible that the System is
guilty of breaking the law and should be challenged?
And furthermore I have never yet stepped on anybody's soapstone pipe in a
back alley - but I have found at least 100 used needles in the back of our
store and blood and blood-stained kleenex. Those clean needles that are
supposed to prevent AIDS and hepatitis are still a serious health hazard
because there's no follow up on this paraphernalia.
There are no excuses! Sounds to me like the pot is calling the kettle
black.
