Definitely aim for recreational, but it’s still important to expand its medical purposes so that it can be protected for those who need it. What I mean by protected is that its use would be allowed for patients in situations that recreational use would still be prohibited, that it can be claimed as a medical expense on taxes, or subsidized for low income people.
Edit: Sorry, not to imply that you’re against the medical part happening too!
I’m Canadian so I’m really asking this genuinely, but which liberties are being crushed in NY that aren’t in other states?
Translation: “I have money so you can go die, you stupid poor”
Exactly, they gave it to them and said “do whatever you want with it” then just checked what they did later.
I hear it goes great with leaded water.
in their right mind
I imagine that’s part of it
I’ve always supported this approach too but I have to wonder… is there a point where it gets taxed so high that people will just go back to the black market? What would prevent anyone from going black (heh) if it’s cheaper than the legal option?
a month
More like 75 years but who’s counting?
Well I Iive in Canada but point taken. I’m still not sure I agree that it’s on the voter to let the worse party win just to support a burgeoning better one. I’d say the responsibility is on that better party to secure their base and show a reasonable chance to win before asking voters to risk the worse party winning.
Voting for any person means you approve of their actions and you are complicit and responsible for them.
I don’t think it means that necessarily. It’s just as valid to vote strategically against an even worse party if they have a chance of winning. It’s not morally contentious to vote for the lesser of two evils.
The first result on google for ‘Australia gun ownership rates’:
-Australian civilians now own more than 3.5 million registered firearms, an average of four for each licensed gun owner.
-The proportion of Australians who hold a gun licence has fallen by 48 percent since 1997.
-The proportion of Australian households with a firearm has fallen by 75 percent in recent decades.
-Data indicates that people who already own guns have bought more rather than an increase in new gun owners.
And I don’t know much about their mass shooting history, but here’s an article explaining that homicides and suicides sharply declined after the ban:
https://www.vox.com/2015/8/27/9212725/australia-buyback
What they found is a decline in both suicide and homicide rates after the NFA. The average firearm suicide rate in Australia in the seven years after the bill declined by 57 percent compared with the seven years prior. The average firearm homicide rate went down by about 42 percent.
Seriously, can you imagine if it was a brown guy trying to kill 6 people because they’re white?
Swap Muslim with Jewish and Israel with Palestine and it’s the same problem… to be clear I think both are true but it’s kinda weird to single one out.
I think the comment above is saying what the government would say… which is honestly fairly realistic.
Excellent progress! Now we can conscionably stop tipping in Chicago too :)
You’re completely missing the point of an analogy. No one is comparing humans to animals. What’s similar is the thought process behind arriving at both conclusions. We could be talking about humans, animals, cars… the subject doesn’t matter, it’s the thought process that’s the same.
Not to say I agree with him but he didn’t compare those two things at all. He said it’s the same mentality that underlies racism and ‘breedism’ for lack of a better word.
Healthcare is provincially regulated here, but coverage in other countries is usually only at the rate that they would cover up here. Because of the huge discrepancies in pricing, most provinces recommend you buy travel insurance when going anywhere else.
"Doctor services
OHIP will pay whichever of the following is less:
Emergency outpatient services
OHIP will pay whichever of the following is less:
Emergency inpatient services
OHIP will pay up to:
$400 (Canadian) per day for services provided in:
$200 (Canadian) per day for lower levels of care"
Yeah but there aren’t laws making bigotry mandatory up there.
It hit all those things??