Maclean’s:
After decades of wasted resources, clogged courtrooms and a shift in public perception, let’s end the war on weed
Sometime this year, if it hasn’t happened already, the millionth Canadian will be arrested for marijuana possession, Dana Larsen estimates. The indefatigable B.C.-based activist for pot legalization is thinking of marking the occasion with a special ceremony. True, it will be impossible to know exactly who the millionth person is, but with the Conservative government’s amped-up war on drugs, it won’t be hard to find a nominee. As Larsen notes, the war on drugs in Canada is mostly a war on marijuana, “and most of that is a war on marijuana users.”
http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/06/10/why-its-time-to-legalize-marijuana/