October 17 2018, today is the day that recreational marijuana is legal and it’s a great first step.  Enjoyed responsibly, marijuana is probably less bad than alcohol and if you’ve been watching my blog, you know that I feel all drugs should be legal but that’s a discussion for another time.

“We are not inventing cannabis with this,” said David Hammond, a professor of applied public health at the University of Waterloo.

“Whether people are for or against it, one of the upshots of legalization is that we are able — and in fact forced — to talk about a lot of things that we should have been addressing many years ago.”

Source: CBC

I always hate when I hear others say that some subjects are taboo to discuss or debate, by doing that it simply shuts down any progress forward.  Just because it’s legal doesn’t mean I’m going to run out to buy some tonight, I have zero interest in marijuana but who am I to say what one should do with their lives.

Banning or prohibition doesn’t work for anything, not drugs or my pet project guns.  Let people do what they want, if they’re bad punish them for it.