America's Longest War: A Film

[CanSocDem]

1. Well, that was excellent!

Great documentary. They kept saying it was a "global" problem when in fact it looked like it all started with the US-DEA (POTUS seems to have little say...). Canada and Mexico (like "Ciudad Juarez&quot were vibrant, functioning (post hippie) communities enjoying life, where in Canada we were distracted only long enough to declare Marijuana Is Safe.

Then the right wing in the USA made it "political" and that cancer has indeed become "global". The film seemed to be suggesting that the USA isn't far from becoming the lawless war on society that we pretend isn't us. Our governments in Canada have bought in, unashamedly pursuing political agenda's that directly contradict known social and medicinal value.

For the moment we are in a slightly better place in regards to cannabis. We still have various levels of government waging their private political war on pot smokers but overall, not counting our commitment to build more privately operated prisons and arrest anyone driving a vehicle with cannabis in their system, it is still easy after 40 years to buy a bag of good pot.