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MONEY MART® is a registered service mark of National Money Mart Company. © 2016 National Money Mart Company. All rights reserved. oakville.ca Based on extensive community and stakeholder consultation, the Town of Oakville has developed a Harbours Master Plan that will help shape the future of Bronte and Oakville Harbours. Join us as we present the Harbour Master Plan findings and discuss future directions. Harbours Master Plan Public Meeting Wednesday, June 13, 2018 at 7-8:30 p.m. Walton United Church, 2489 Lakeshore Road W Accessibility needs? Please let us know by June 8, 2018 by contacting Rakesh Mistry at 905-845-6601, ext. 3664 (TTY: 905-338-4200) or harboursplan@oakville.ca. For more information about the Harbours Master Plan, visit oakville.ca. The rush to legalize marijuana by July 1 is a threat to health and safety. Its unintended conse- quences include adding yet another stupefying drug to alcohol and a long list of other drugs that lead to vehicular accidents, ad- diction, and harms with inadequate safety warn- ings. The Liberal marijuana bill will make marijuana more easily available to our children and teens. The proposed health and safety warnings on the packaging fall far short of what users need to make an informed decision on its true risks. Our legal system is many months away from being ready to enforce the new impaired driving law. And the age limit for purchase and use should be based on the evi- dence of risks to mental health for those under 25. Marijuana is a Class II narcotic that makes users find things very funnyfind things very funnyf that aren't, crashes their blood sugar so they eat a pile of sweet and salty junk food, makes them forgetfood, makes them forgetf what they did 30 seconds before, inspires apathy, impairs their ability to drive safely, increases blood pressure and can cause heart palpitations. And those are just the short-term effects. Ask any Liberal MP why they are legalizing marijuana and they will immediately rhyme off their two key talking points: to keep it out of the hands of children and make sure criminals can't profit from it. Both claims, in my opinion, are com- pletely false. To make something that is illegal less available, you don't make it legal and allow anyone over 19 to grow it in their home. There is no going back on this policy. After breaking a series of election promises the Liberals are now desper- ate for a promise they can keep. But what is the rush? Bill C-45 will allow peo- ple to grow up to four mari- juana plants in their home, and unlike pre- scription drugs that are normally kept out of reach of children in childproof containers, the plants will be out in the open for sun- light. How hard would it be for children and teens tofor children and teens tof help themselves to a few high potency blossoms, enough to make them sick, ruin a day's learning at school, cause impaired driving, or sell? This section of the bill must be reversed to elimi- nate home production to actually protect children and teens. And children and teens will continue to get mari- juana from the same peo- ple they do now; older brothers, sisters or friends, but more easilyfriends, but more easilyf because it will be socially acceptable and widely dis- tributed. The theory that drug dealers and organized criminals, who have ig- nored criminal laws for de- cades, will fold up their tent and quit the business because of "regulations" is a fairy tale. To believe that you have to also believe all users would rather walk blocks or drive kilometres to buy their marijuana at a government-approved store, and pay HST plus a special tax, instead of hav- ing it discreetly delivered to them at their home or lo- cal pub with no taxes, available credit and poten-available credit and poten-a tially laced with other drugs. What worker who oper- ates a company vehicle or machinery, or is responsi- ble for the well-being of others, wants their boss to see them coming out of a marijuana store? In the last federal elec- OPINION Rush to legalize cannabis a threat to health, safety: Drug Safety Canada l See WHERE, page 40 'There is no going back on this policy,' writes Terence Young TERENCE YOUNG Column