so then why doesn't Richmond institute a total ban on alcohol sales?  You know, the drug which is a proven killer and destroyer of lives on a scale MJ could never achieve.  BC is silly to go with a patchwork system, it compromises people's rights hurts some while granting access to others.  It is lopsided and wrong.  BC should just sell the MJ in the existing liquor store system and in licensed pharmacies for medicinal MJ - the existing controls and logistics are already in place and this would be cheap, safer and fairer.