This opinion piece ignores the reality that the federal government is rushing legalization without an adequate framework in place to ensure it's properly regulated.  Their approach is "legalization, that's our only problem, and everyone else deal with the aftermath/regulation/supply".  I'm not trying to sound like a prude here, while not a fan of pot, it's a no brainer the time has come to legalize it.  But if you don't have the right system in place, really all we are going to be doing is legalizing organized crime who are currently the main growers of large scale marijuana operations.  The feds have not thought this part through, pretty clearly.  Lots of talk about legalizing, not much talk about the details, which are pretty significant.  How things "look" to the left voter base, generally, rather than what's actually of value seems to, unfortunately, be the hallmark of young Mr. Trudeau and his cohorts.  At least it gets him on fancy magazine covers.