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(2002) Senator Pierre Claude Nolin on the Senate Report [1of2]

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Channel: Pot TV · 2010 · Education

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Originally broadcast on September 5th, 2002.

Senator Nolin explains the resoning and science behind the half-million dollar Federal Canadian study that has called for the legalization of cannabis.

Sept. 2-4, 2002: The Senate releases their report. Their report states:

The Committee wrote that "we should ... stop our crusade" and give up all hope of a drug-free society. Policy should be based upon "freedom", "autonomy" and "responsibility" - "only behavior causing demonstrable harm to others shall be prohibited". Also of note, the Committee wrote that "used in moderation, cannabis in itself poses very little danger to users and to society as a whole" and "even if cannabis were to have serious harmful effects, one would have to question the relevance of using the criminal law to limit these effects". The Senate Committee recommended setting up licensing for producing and selling cannabis (recommendation 6) as well as amnesty for users (recommendation 7) and "impairment" testing instead of "amount-of-substance within system" testing (recommendation 9).

- Cannabis: Our Position for a Canadian Public Policy, Sept. 2002, pp. 610-622

To put it even more plainly;

"Decriminalization is just another form of prohibition"



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