Oh, sure, if it was being sold commercially they'd tax it and make lots of money, but that's not what I'm suggesting for marijuana. I am suggesting rather that it be legalized for home cultivation and private use in the home ONLY and NOT be allowed to be sold commercially. It's very easy to grow, harvest, and prepare your own marijuana in your own home. Anyone can do it with little trouble at all, and people who are into it enjoy doing it. That would not result in any commercial sales, and the government would not be involved in the process in any way, and would not tax it.

But this is something...naturally...that the government won't do! ;-D Because they would much rather have a situation where they are in control of something rather than the public being in control if it and where they can make some money off it.

So they will almost certainly maintain the status quo, with maybe some very minor legal adjustments now and then.

One thing that has changed in Canada since I think the late 90s... It is legal now for farms to grow varieties of the hemp plant that are very low in THC, and there are many such varieties. Hemp is a tremendously useful plant that is used to make cloth, paper, industrial materials of many kinds, and it's also an excellent food source. Both the oil and the hulled seeds are nutricious and healthful and can be added to other foods.

The varieties of hemp that are used that way contain so little THC that you simply cannot get high on smoking them no matter how much of the stuff you smoke or injest. Those varieties are now legal to grow and sell in Canada. There's a farm not far from here that grows this legal hemp and sells hemp oil, hulled seeds for eating, and a variety of other hemp-based products. In the first year of the farm's existence local fools were sneaking in at night to steal the mature plants, thinking they could smoke the stuff and get high on it. They soon discovered that you could smoke a roomful of this hemp and not get even a buzz....so the nightly purloining has ceased to happen.

I've been eating these hemp seeds with cereal, stews, other foods, or just straight out of the bag...they taste great. And I've been adding the oil to salads and stuff. It makes an excellent garnish.

If Bobert is reading this...hey, man, believe me...you could devour an entire room full of this legal hemp in any form whatseover...and you WILL not get stoned! Nosiree. ;-) But you'll be very healthy.

I recommend it highly. And I am pleased that the Canadian government has seen fit to legalize the growth of these totally harmless low-THC hemp plants. They look exactly like illegal marijuana, but they do not have the same effect, because they contain only the tiniest trace amounts of THC. The government has inspectors who can confirm the THC content of a specific strain of hemp plants and certify them as legal for farmng.