For a government that is lost in debt, they're sure stupid. Legalizing pot would get them all the tax dollars they need and they could stop this stupid carbon tax that's going to help them lose the next election.

As long as the US considers pot illegal, so will Canada. The dope smokers can keep dreaming of legalization, but it won't happen any time soon.

Besides, pot wouldn't bring in the tax dollars everyone thinks. People would just grow their own or buy it from friends if it were legal.

Mr pg is right until usa changes there laws cananda wont either.if weed was legal in canada every drug traffiker from the usa would arrive here to buy 1000's of pounds of weed at a time to bring back to the usa.and yup soon as its legal in canada why would anyone buy it from the government when they could grow there own in a green house in there yard for free?

I tend to agree too. Legalizing it would probably create other problems. Such as more people being hooked on using pot then there is now. Not to mention attracting all kinds of rif-raf from other countries thinking smoking pot and not working is a cool thing to do with your life.

What would be good would be to legalize smaller amounts so the RCMP and the courts don't bother wasting tax dollars running after college students that have a couple of joints.

It's good that they go after the grow-ops. It's obviously not just personal use.

What a dumb statement. "If it were legal, people would grow their own."
People can grow their own food, but don't because it is too much work. People could grow their own tobacco, but they don't because it is too much work. People could grow their own flowers, but they don't because it takes too much work. It is way easier to go and buy all of these.
Are you seeing a pattern here? And we are discussing potheads who are reputed to be more lazy than the average Joe.

As it is with pot being an underground commodity, some people grow their own, but it is only a couple or a few plants in a window. Hardly enough to supply oneself. Then there is the matter of processing ones harvest. First it must be dried, then cured. So you are suggesting that a lazy a$$ pot head is going to do all that? Give your head a shake.

Not everybody will grow their own, but people who want to make some money will... and make quite a bit more than selling tomatoes or flowers. Unless the gov't to going to clamp down on people growing big crops in their back 40, it would be relatively easy to do.

Mind you, all of this is irrelevant. Legalization won't happen.

MHK: one does not get "hooked" on pot. It has no addictive properties. It is the euphoria achieved in consuming the product that people like.

If you think most or all pot smokers are lazy welfare bums, you have not been living around BC long. When in a logging camp, it was customary to go out after dinner for an aperitif, then to bed. Just like the legal shot of brandy. I know many industrial workers that are heavy consumers. I even know a few successful business people that consume regularly. There goes your lazy theory!

The only reason "riff-raff" are involved is because it is illegal. If it were legal, these riff-raff would become legitimate transnational entrepreneurs. This would increase international trade and with that a positive influence on all economies involved. Then there is the matter of enforcement or the act of prohibiting its distribution. With it being legal, the police would not be pursuing pot. There goes their budget! There are better reasons to emigrate to Canada than the ability to consume something that is a weed in the originating country.

How is it good that they are going after grow ops? No, it is not for personal consumption, it is a business that does not pay taxes. If it were legal, that same business becomes taxable and there would be no prohibition costs.

Just because someone a long time ago decided to make something illegal (look it up, Ralph Randall Hearst felt threatened by the superior cellulose in hemp which opposed his vast timber holdings), does not make that product bad. Tobacco is legal, yet we have proof that it causes harm if used as intended. Much of our food is treated with harmful substances to keep off pests and to preserve them during transport, legal. Laws are not created to protect us, they are created to line someones pocket. It may not be readily apparent who is making a dollar on it, but you can be sure that if there is a law, there is a profit. Why do you think we have such absurdly low speed limits on the highway? It is so we can be fined. On the autobahn, they look for safety infractions like a vehicle going too slow for the flow of traffic, rather than impeding the traffic with an arbitrary speed limit.

Hopefully, some sheeple will pull their heads out of the behind and quit believing the the government has only our best interest at heart. They are out for themselves as much as any one else.

Reefer madness was and is lie. Research it!

MrPG, too right!
What America does, Canada kowtows to. Apparently Canada is the USA's bitch, has been since federation and continues today. To think that we had 2 bushes (George) crafting our laws.