Dogma-1,Science-0

Once more we see the government of Stephen Harper,ignoring evidence,science and history in favor of dogma.The separation of church and state has been eliminated by a government of Evangelicals who ignore research for their source of all knowledge,the bible.Not only has this government ignored every study ever done on the subject of drugs and harm reduction.They have attacked,with our tax dollars,every attempt at drug reform.They ignore evidence to a fault and are using the courts and now parliament to try to send us back 50 years in the way we deal with the issues of drugs and specifically marijuana.This is the exact same thing the American ONDCP has done to the detriment of America's youth.Instead of educating our youth on what drugs are dangerous and what drugs are not,they lump all drugs into one category and say that all drugs are evil.Laws such as S-10 always purport to go after gangs and organised crime but wind up being misused against the lowest order of criminal,the drug addict and the pot smoker.I have no doubt that the members of the Conservative caucus are well aware of this and just don't care.It is even possible that this is their intent and that it is the poor and the disenfranchised that Harper&co. are always attacking as they know this is the easiest group to go after.By removing the judge from the court sentencing procedure,they must surely be in violation of the charter of rights and freedoms?While Europe moves toward an end to drug prohibition and the US is on a road to the legalization of cannabis,the government of Stephen Harper has aligned itself with a small group of right wing Amerikans that want the continuation of drug prohibition and an expansion of the prison infrastructure and the use of jails to solve the employment issue.By admitting to the need for 6 billion dollars in prison infrastructure to maintain the fallout from S-10 harper has shown that he would rather put people in prison than to make any attempt at treatment or reform.If Canadians don't want their country to be jailing 1% of it's population,mostly on non violent drug crime,you had better think seriously about electing another government.