By the way, there are people who die because of lax drug enforcement policies in Vancouver and the proliferation of illegal pot shops and an open drug market. It's the people being executed by drug cartels in Mexico, Afghanistan, Columbia and China. Where do you think the drugs come from Pollyanna? They come from drug lords who kill and summarily execute people. Take your flippin' rose coloured glasses off.  Illegal drugs are not a victimless crime.  The victims are just for the most part, except in Canadian gang slayings, innocents in other parts of the world. Yeah really really nice people who volunteer in kindergartens in their spare time, produce heroin and get it into Canada. NO vicious murderers do! Perhaps the Globe and Mail could do an expose on how many people are slaughtered by drug cartels with connections and traffic to Canada? But that would go against the fairy tale of harmless innocents doing drugs because they have no choice in Vancouver.