even if legal... by the time they regulate and manage it like alcohol and tobacco the pro-pot community still wont be happy.
beer and alcohol are legal but i cant walk down the street drinking one...
i cant have a still in my garage making "moonshine" ...
and i sure as heck cant drive after having a few.

as well the government spends allot of money on the police and courts managing illegal alcohol and tobacco crimes.

i dont think it will be the big pot free-for-all they are hoping for

"Most Canadians Want To Legalize It"

Highly Doubt that, BUT what IS probably true is WE don't see the sense in jailing people for such
a thing anymore. It's not politically or economically just, period. Let's take a bite out of crime and stop harassing people that want to light up in private, or acceptable venues.

I drove taxi for more than seven years. I don't remember one stoned passenger ever giving me a hard time. I do remember the impact alcohol had on them, however - passing out, vomiting, urinating, belligerence, incoherence, violence.
Then there were the 3AM calls to pick up a women (often with her children) for a trip to a shelter after an alcohol fueled confrontation at the hands of her husband or boyfriend. And don't get me started on the drinking and driving. I consider myself to be very lucky to be alive given what I've seen in that department (and so might you be too if you were one of the five university student passengers of mine who were too drunk to notice that I managed to stop the car within an inch of being hit by a drunken clown who blew a red light at ~90 MPH). I could go on...

The death toll from the Canadian theatre of the War on Drugs is rarely published....what's it running at now, anyway? I'd think that would date from the Reagan era, when his anti-marijuana pogroms in California and Oregon drove north the marijuana industry, and all the good lines and strains that made the BC industry what it is. The death toll in Mexico given at 51,000 I'm not sure when they date that from.....ours is much lower and also includes civilian crossfire and just in cost of incarceration of anyone actually convicted probably almost as expensive as investigation and prosecution.

The Sun article doesn't give that - how many people die every year in Canada because of the War on Drugs, nor the rate of those incarcerated relative to other crimes and charges. The benefits in pain management and as anti-depressant mean reduced costs to the health system (and to pharmacare, which is why Big Pharma doesn't like it, as is well-known and obvious).

The authorities will find something else to kick in your door about though, rest assured. Books, maybe....

Smoking is dumb. The act of inhaling clouds of scorching hot carbon particles is always a bad idea imho. But to each their own, and as far a mind altering substances go, marijuana is a lot tamer than a bottle of LCB rye. Let's get on with it and let the police, the courts and the prison system focus on actions that are worthy of our taxes and their attention.