JMJ
Oct.19,2018
It is the second day of the legalisation of marijuana, after 50 years of the unofficial acceptance of marijuana in the North. It is 2 AM and I can’t sleep due to stinging eyes and a painful throat caused by the neighbours’ marijuana. This is a common occurrence in the summer but now the marijuana users have to toke up all night to prove what a wonderful time they are having. Yesterday THE GLOBE AND MAIL , officially Liberal since 1867and usually liberal, had an excellent article of the psychotic factor of marijuana users particularly in the Swedish military. John passed it on to his contacts. I made a poster in screaming orange bristol board with my best primary printing that read: Poison with skull and cross bones symbol reading : Marijuana causes mental illness, memory loss, brain damage, violence and sterility. I waterproofed the poster with clear packing tape. We put it on the telephone pole in the corner of our property. Today I plan to make another poster for another location .
Homes of non- marijuana users are inundated with marijuana smoke of users who believe they now have a right to usurp the authority of the owner . People trying hard not to drink have to live in a confusing cloud of poison smoke.
Every year The Northern Lights School uses the trump card that THEY have Hallowe’en parties and WE don’t. Actually we do have Holy Evening ,aka Hallowed Eve .aka Hallowe’en .treats distribution and have an ALL SAINTS event after the sugar jag and adult drunk is over. But it is quite true we don’t have tax funded dope and booze for the adults and against the children who have to breathe this stuff and navigate through the resulting confusion.
In the summer of 2015 there was massive evacuation from the North due to Wild Fires. We were part of that event as we were blocked from our home for two weeks. The smoke was easier to handle than the marijuana fog of this week.
Quebec has put the legalisation age at 21 years instead of 19 years. Ontario states that one can only buy marijuana through the mail and refuses to open pot- head stores. Prime Minister Trudeau is furious. He says this will create a “ black market.” According to the Liberal Cannabis Act the provinces can regulate the law. Obviously Saskatchewan should put the legal age of use at 93 years. We have had 50 years of marijuana protection and promotion. We should be compensated by a massive education programme to teach the true harmful effects os marijuana. Any regulations should be enforced by the RCMP vigorously . The CBC should be forced , from their existing budget, to create effective ads such as those against cigarette usage They should have massive true programmes to compensate for their inane “oh isn’t it exiting !! “ Trudeau slobbering of this week.
It is time the true nature of education in the North should be exposed. The low or non- existing standards are hidden by sociological excuses, cultural drivel, inflated marks and social passing. The fact is marijuana has created the educational mess as it has permeated ( almost)every school including of course NORTEP. Above all, the furious and illegal attacks on educational choice must stop. Gay
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