The US has no jurisdiction (horribly misspelled I'm sure), or authority to do anything in Canada or Mexico. Right now you can go to a pharmacy in Mexico and buy all sorts of perscription drugs right over the counter. And yes you can go to Vancover to smoke pot in public, although I've never been there, I know people that have. Did you also know that the voters of Mendicino County, right here in sunny california, voted last year to legalize marijuana for personal use? And even though state and federal law trumps county law people still openly grow and smoke pot up there because there is little or no enforcment of the state and federal laws. The fact that more and more people are smoking marijuana is becoming a problem for the federal government esspecially with all the other much more dangerouse drugs they have to worry about. But even if they had the manpower to bust all the smokes here in the US they couldn't touch anyone in Canada or Mexico - being that they are sovreign states.


>>"Pot is the biggest growth industry in B.C." said Robert Adams, the Marijuana Party's online committee chair. Adams, a political candidate in the logging town of Squamish, pegs the industry at $6 billion (Canadian) in annual revenues, if not more.
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>>Legalizing it could mean a $20 billion windfall for B.C.'s economy, with a considerable chunk of that likely to come from taxation and increased tourism -- although some worry that it might damage the city's reputation and thus stem the flow of family vacationers, said Paul Vallee, senior vice president at Tourism Vancouver.
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>First time I have heard anything about this. Our National news reports have not mentioned anything like this that I have heard or seen. Could be the usual media selectiveness on what to cover. With all the emphasis on "The War on Drugs", I would like to know if this true and what the United States is doing about it? We hear about “Marijuana Raids” from our local media, taking place in the hills of Santa Cruz (on the way to the beach from Silicon valley) and other areas of Northern California – even in peoples houses in San Jose! Might just be a “good neighbor policy” – turn your head and pretend it is not happening. It is O.K. because it is Canada. If it was Tijuana, Mexico, you can bet the U.S. Marines would be there is seconds, with Agent Orange, and M-16’s.
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>Tom