The liberal-left have been encouraging Canadians to get high on drugs by dangling the prospect of decriminalizing marijuana, and their strategy seems to be working. Drug use is out of control and has doubled.
That should set the liberal-left up for some dramatic increases in the need for nanny-state social services and programs of every description. Eureka!
OTTAWA (CP) – The number of Canadians who say they have used cannabis or injectable drugs in the past year has doubled in a decade, according to a major new survey.
But addiction specialists still see alcohol abuse as the greater problem. Data from the Canada Addiction Survey, the most comprehensive addictions survey ever done in Canada, present a disturbing picture of a society increasingly dependent on mood-altering substances.
Fourteen per cent of respondents said they had used cannabis in the last year, up from 7.4 per cent in 1994. About a third said they had failed to control their cannabis use.
About 269,000 Canadians said they had used an injectable drug in the past year, up from 132,000 in 1994. Nearly 4.1 million Canadians reported using injectable drugs at least once in their life. That’s up from 1.7 million in 1994.
Conservative justice critic Vic Toews said rising rates of abuse are an indictment of federal drug policy, including the planned easing of marijuana laws and the establishment of safe injection sites.
“Certainly the Liberal drug strategy is failing,” he said. “The safe injection sites aren’t safe. There’s more deaths in Vancouver than before the safe injection sites were put in place.
“I am concerned about the decriminalization of marijuana or any other drug. I am concerned that the government has not put forward a national strategy to deal with the whole issue of addictions.”
…18 per cent of cannabis users are using the drug daily, and about a third say they can’t control their use.
The Liberals and the NDP both favor legalizing marijuana. Surely they realize the fact that increased drug use and addiction will cause further reliance on the state for myriad services. But let’s be clear: that’s not something they fear—it’s an election strategy.
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