Canada legalizes medical marijuana it was in the 1920s that the United States declared several herbs illegal. After the experiment to ban alcoholic beverages, which turned out a fiasco, they banned other pleasurable substances. Which also has become a total disaster.

The drugs that made Sherlock Holmes the most celebrated detective of literature, administered by his faithful doctor Watson at the start of each of his brilliant stories, have become the source of the justice system. The French writer Baudelaire wrote his famous books under the influence of marijuana and that herb too, came on the list of forbidden fruits. To no avail, as marijuana is still the most popular herb used by people in all countries of the world. That nicotine, in the form of cigarettes and cigars stayed legalized until recently the greatest criminal act that the United States committed towards its own and the rest of the world population. The nicotine is so habit forming that after a few cigarettes the user is hooked  for life. Serious illnesses, cancer and other respiratory dements result.

Today, 6th of July 2001 Canada has legalized medical marijuana. Especially to alleviate the ill effects of the sicknesses that result from the legal poison nicotine. Ironic but true, one has to be terminally ill to legally use the herb marijuana. Holland has understood for over twenty years now that marijuana is not a dangerous drug. Like coffee and tea it is labeled soft and less dangerous than the legal substance sugar, which lands more people in hospital than the three herbs marijuana, tea and coffee together. Switzerland has recently also legalized the use of marijuana and England is the latest civilized country that no longer arrests and prosecutes the users. The famous Bob Marley smoked it openly and the Rastafarians use it with the excuse that it is part of the religious experience. The Bible has no bad word about it, still, most countries not woken up to the truth about the herb. Sint Maarten should educate its people on the subject so that it may free itself from the hysterical witch— hunt that takes place in the United States and France against perfectly honest hard working, taxpaying people that like to relax after work with a spliff and good music. One should not have to be sick first in order to enjoy Gods given herb, to first drink alcohol and smoke nicotine in order to become sick enough to benefit from the herb marijuana. The lawmakers in the primitive times 80 years ago did not check what they were doing and they made millions of people suffer, up to today. It is time the example of Holland, Switzerland and England and Canada is followed by our own lawmakers