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Just another pandering politician not worthy of a vote.

Hah! Well, I would definitely have a difficult time being as eloquent as Trudeau, here. She thinks she knows what's best and is a bit too smug about it, so I could definitely see myself getting frustrated in his shoes. He handles it well, though, and I wonder if we might see a statement in the future from her that she thinks it was the right thing after Canada legalizes marijuana.

I think there is a some truth to it being a gateway drug. But not in the sense that most people think of it. The reason I consider it a gateway drug is because once you start buying weed, you've begun to contact criminals and buy stuff from them. It makes it that much easier to now go a step further. You have the contacts, and you have already mentally accepted breaking the law. If you bought dope at the corner store like beer, the dope smoker would be no closer to harder drugs than the average teenager that buys beer.

However, to say that dope is a gateway drug on account of it's effects on the user makes no more sense than the same argument for alcohol.

Yeah, when he asked her how many addicts where pot addicts, I just smiled. She was trying to set him up into a sound byte, and it turned around on her. =)

I love that when she says her kid also gets alcohol he tells her the issue might be parenting.

Here in California, for well over a decade, it's been far easier for teenagers to buy marijuana than it is for them to buy cigarettes. That backs up his position 100%

Easy answer (he kinda mentions it):

The money saved chasing black market pot + tax excised from the legalised sale of pot = more treatment for addiction.

End of fucking story.

ps. You can tell the type of parent she is that she's so busy off crusading to save people that her daughter is getting high and drunk easily. Lemme guess, extremely strict parent who has closeted her kid so much that she's gone off the rails after getting a taste?

I think "Blame Canada" really needs to be linked to this sift (but have no idea how to do so... = ) because this woman is Sheila Broflowski...

Good argument for legalisation then!

You have it exactly right. Marijuana is not a gateway drug. The laws against it are gateway laws.

There's another way in which it could be considered a gateway drug. Once you've tried it or have friends who have tried it, you might tend to get curious and start doing a bit of research. Once you begin researching it, it quickly becomes obvious that the government has been lying about the effects for decades. Then you start wondering how many other drugs they've been lying about. Which leads to how many other non-drugs have they been lying about? And why?

How did he pander? He basically told this voter to shut the fuck up, she and all her people are dumb, and we need to address this issue with small-government approach rather than Mother-Government-Knows-Best.

I don't know, he was very Conservative-minded here. I guess you disagree why?

Bob just can't get over we actually have a political party that NAMED ITSELF THE LIBERAL PARTY, and we actually voted them into office.

To a US Conservative, that's like losing the Congress majority to a party calling itself the Commie Pinko Woman Power Gays and Illegal Minorities Anti-Religion Fuck Fuck Fuckity Fuck League.

My favourite moment, for those of you unfamiliar with Canadian politics, is at 4:20 when they realize she's connected to this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Toews

This was the tail end of his political career:

"In February 2012, as Minister, Toews introduced the Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act (also known as Bill C-30).[118][119] If passed, the bill would grant police agencies expanded powers, mandate that internet service providers (ISPs) provide subscriber information without a warrant and compel providers to reveal information transmitted over their networks with a warrant. When criticised about privacy concerns, Toews responded that people "can either stand with us or with the child pornographers."[120] Public response followed, with an anonymous Twitter account posting personal information of Toews' court proceedings during his divorce, and around this time Conservative support appeared to back away from the bill and open up to amendments.[121] Toews later denied that he had made the "child pornographers" reference, despite his comments being available in Hansard and on video.[122] In February 2013 the government announced Bill C-30 would be scrapped entirely in favor of changes in Canada's warrant-less wiretap law"

Pandering to to those who believe in his view by being somewhat condescending to her.

That is how I perceived it.

Nahh, there's no pandering, and barely any condescension from him. There's a huge amount of condescension from her and he shows remarkable restraint even while becoming a bit frustrated.

She shows positively @bobknight33-levels of inability to see another's viewpoint and unwillingness to debate honestly.

That he remains mostly unfazed by it is one of the reasons this video (and man) is great.

There's no way not to be condescending to someone if the opinions of two people are opposites, and the person being condescending both believes in the good work of the person of the opposite opinion, yet does not believe in their conclusions, due to critical datum which is not being acknowledged by that person.

That's how I perceived it.