I thought Canada was already a de facto legal locale. Isn't weed pretty much tolerated by your law enforcement?
Law enforcement, I'd say they tolerate recreational use, to a point...they do go after gangs trafficking large quantities of it, along with guns and way harder shit.
Government, not so much. This current government is incapable of seeing weed objectively, they're too caught up in the partisan rhetoric. Our current government just got smacked hard on the nose by our Supreme Court over medical marijuana restrictions...get this...they argued that the only way patients should be allowed to take their legal, prescribed marijuana, was dried stuff you have to smoke; they wanted to block it being dispensed in oils, edibles etc. Medical weed. Medicine. Used for cancer patients, people with tremors, suffering chronic pain, PTSD, epilepsy and more. The ones that are doing it on the record, with the help of doctors with guts enough to step up and write the scrips, who want an alternative to strong addictive narcotics with side effects.
So, the Supreme Court basically said NO, if a patient is being prescribed medicine, they get to be able to take it in other ways than one, since smoking doesn't necessarily work for everybody and alternatives are available. In reply, the health minister said she was outraged by their decision and took a shot at the third party leader (he has pretty hair, and they like to pick on him) saying he wanted to put drugs in the hands of children. The fact that her rebuttal has nothing to do with the issue at hand shows how far off they are. And that's the bajillionth time the SC has basically told them to sit down.
It'd be nice to have an adult open conversation about legalization in Canada. Not gonna happen till Legohead isn't in charge anymore.