Canada threatens to copy failed War on Drugs

Tell me if this doesn't have Bush's crap-caked fingerprints all over it.

Over in Canada, officials for Prime Minister Stephen Harper of the Conservative Party are threatening to mimic the failed anti-drug policies that have long ravaged the U.S. and A. (In addition, Harper is a climate change skeptic, but that's another matter entirely.) Harper's Health Minister Tony Clement declared that "the party's over" for illegal drug users. Conservatives also scuttled a popular bill that would have softened marijuana laws. As a result of the Harper administration's meddling, the number of people arrested for smoking pot has suddenly soared.

"The party's over"??? Didn't Mad Dog (the elder Bush) use these exact words regarding illicit drug users when he took power?

It's pretty clear the current Bush regime has some influence in Canada's latest crackdown. The U.S. government has long had a system of classifying and certifying other countries based on how willing they are to go along with the War on Drugs. Every so often, you hear of some move in Washington to decertify another country because it won't erect a gallows for every pot smoker. I know Congress in the '90s threatened to decertify Colombia because Colombia's Supreme Court legalized marijuana possession.

It looks like that North American Union (our continent's equivalent to the EU) that Bush supports is closer than we think, if Bush and Harper can coordinate failed laws together.

If Harper wants to waste Canadian taxpayers' money on this prohibition horseshit that doesn't work, then probably the only party that's going to be over is the Conservative Party. Harper's crackdown is really an old, stale, headline-grabbing blowhard gimmick that harms the public.

(Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070929.wharperdrug0929/BNStory/National/home)