[youngtory]

Pot isn't legal yet the government is about to legalise it.It was too premature for me to conclude that. The police went to investigate a building which was a grop-op area to investigate and this man who grew the pot fired at the police killing them.

[Know your rights]

The police went to investigate a building which was a grop-op area to investigate

They weren't investigating it as a grow-op, and the RCMP commissioner admits there's no connection.

[-YYZ-]

"Pot isn't legal yet the government is about to legalise it.It was too premature for me to conclude that."

No, they have introduced a bill that will decriminalize personal possession of a small quantity of pot, much like a number of US states. The same bill increases penalties for growing and, I believe, trafficking.

The only real difference will be that a simple posssession arrest will not result in a criminal record, or probably even an arrest record.

[TKDietz]

"Pot isn't legal yet the government is about to legalise it."

Like -YYZ_ said, they are only talking about decriminalizing small amounts of it. Ohio and probably a few other states that have decriminalized here have even more lenient marijuana laws than Canada's government is now considering. Most of the laws decriminalizing marijuana in the states that have done it here have been on the books in the neighborhood of 30 years and the sky hasn't fallen in these states. Use in those states varies but is about the same as in other states. In some cases it's lower than average, in others it is higher. But some of the highest use numbers are from states that haven't decriminalized. I wouldn't worry about it. Whether people can get a criminal record for simple possession of pot doesn't seem to matter much. It shouldn't make much of a difference if any in use numbers. It doesn't sound like the laws in Canada are keeping many there who want to smoke pot from doing it anyway.