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> The Canadian government on Thursday announced a plan to legalize recreational use of marijuana by July 2018. Canada is set to implement this plan into law nationwide.
>Now quite a few states here it's 100% legal, and over 1/2 of the states where its legal to dome degree. I wish the federal government here would just make it legal already and get with the times.

Blair's quote is interesting: "It will keep cannabis out of the hands of children and youth, and stop criminals from profiting from it."

Re: children and youth - just like alcohol, I suppose...

Re: criminal profit - this means that the government (i.e. heavily regulated private producers up here) must be competitive with organized crime - provide a better product at a lower price. Just like with alcohol, our feds want it to be a cash cow so I have severe doubts on this score

I do think that legalizing possession of small quantities, and taking more action on drug-impaired driving are good things. Although with the latter there's some question of how effective any new measures can be, over top of existing awareness campaigns: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadas-drunk-driving-death-rate-worst-among-wealthy-countries-u-s-study-finds