Canadians told to have two drinks a week, as crack is decriminalised
Justin Trudeau introduced some of the strictest guidelines on alcohol in the West ahead of the decriminalisation of certain Class A drugs
Actually, they’re entirely nuts:
No amount of alcohol is safe, says Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addictions (CCSA) in a report published in January. The report concludes “drinking less is better”, and if you must drink, two drinks maximum each week is deemed low-risk.
Waking up in the morning isn’t entirely safe either. Relative risk is what it’s all about……
The final January report also details a variety of health risks associated with alcohol consumption. According to the CCSA, any more than two standard drinks per week brings an increase in negative outcomes, including several types of cancer, heart disease and stroke.
One for Mr. Snowdon. Not drinking has risks, drinking has risks. Drinking has fewer risks than non-drinking for the first few drinks per week. Called the J-Curve and yes it’s there. From memory – all too fallible – the drinkers’ curve crosses the teetotallers’ again somewhere around 30 to 40 units a week.
“somewhere around 30 to 40 units a week.”
I’ve read about this. Luckily I don’t drink “units”, I drink pints, so I’m in the clear.
My dad was recommended to have a glass of red wine every night – for his health
I can’t believe what I’m reading – crack is the most addictive and destructive illegal substance in the world, why would you decriminalise it?!
Julia
Maybe the crack peddlers have out-bribed the booze sellers. So they get booze restricted to make way for more cocaine.
Of course, more likely it’s just the governments driveling idiocy.
Oxford English Dictionary* – Government -Definition: Group of incompetent, know nothing but can’t be told anything parastites, with no understanding of the real world who fuck up everything they touch.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/apr/05/stoners-cheered-when-canada-legalised-cannabis-how-did-it-all-go-wrong
*not the real one obvs.
You’re right Julia. I’ve seen the effects of crack. It’s a very short high with a rough aftermath. So users keep repeating. And crack pipe mouth. Crack pipes are short glass tubes. Short because the crack vapour precipitates as it cools. So users are basically trying to inhale straight off of a cigarette lighter flame. Burns the lips & gums, so the front teeth rot out.
But I suppose it makes sense legalising it if you’re legalising possession of cocaine. You can make crack cocaine. All you need’s bicarbonate of soda, a spoon a bit of water & your charlie. It’s just a way of getting more bang for your buck out of C.
Coke’s one of those drugs I don’t really understand. OK, it wakes you up a bit & there’s a certain euphoria. But you do all that with amphetamines at a fraction of the price. You can cook that at home if you can source the precursors. There’s not a 6000 mile interdictable supply chain behind it. The bling element? Charlie seems to give self confidence-if you need it. So how much of that is putting an expensive fashionable drug up your hooter? Same as the clothes with the designer labels on the outside.* They’re hardly any different from the non-designer. It’s the label’s important & gives the wearer self confidence.
*Marbella fashion statement. Second homes for Europe’s third rate criminals.
JuliaM: crack is the most addictive and destructive illegal substance in the world, why would you decriminalise it?!
Possibly because it is the preferred refreshment of the more vibrant and diverse elements of society and in the spirit of inclusiveness this measure will bring them nicely within the confines of the law.
Alcohol, by contrast, is enjoyed by complacent white supremacists and turncoat coconuts who have had things all their own way for too long and need to be punished, hectored and bullied.
The French nun who just died aged nearly 119 “ate chocolate and drank a glass of wine every day”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucile_Randon
Possibly because it is the preferred refreshment of the more vibrant and diverse elements of society and in the spirit of inclusiveness this measure will bring them nicely within the confines of the law.
Not so much. In the UK, crack tends to be the preference of the white dole dossers, as far as users are concerned. Possibly diverse but hardly vibrant. Trainspotters. No reason to believe it’s any different in Canada.
Trouble with coke, of course, is you’re nicking the sons & daughters of your politicians, bankers, top civil servants, police chiefs & possibly members of your royal family, if you’re not careful.
We tried a Canadian Riesling Eiswein a couple of years ago. Very decent. Presumably the business is too small to bribe the politicians effectively.
– I can’t believe what I’m reading – crack is the most addictive and destructive illegal substance in the world, why would you decriminalise it?!
How are such things going in Portugal, Tim?
Very well indeed…..
Trudeau would make anyone want to drink. Every time I’ve been in Canada I’ve always had the impression that Canadians really do like to hammer the drinks back.
Christopher Snowden has put those J curves on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/cjsnowdon/status/1616058823441092612?s=61&t=2mYpm83vrSQBPyxae7Q2qA
Decriminalisation is being pushed because of the fentanyl crisis, there are charities who are supplying people with ‘clean’ drugs because it’s not fair to discriminate against them and subject them to higher risk.
This also follow on from reclassifying drug addiction as an official illness/medical condition and saying you can’t stigmatise an illness.
There’s an adverts that runs where a woman is shown saying how when her husband was sick everyone rallied around, but now her son is sick and no one wants to know and they are all stigmatising her and him because he’s a drug addict