I was turning twenty in 1972 when the official government commission into the "non-medical use of drugs" recommended that marijuana be made legal in Canada. I had already stopped smoking it myself by then, but I knew literally hundreds of people who smoked up regularly and I knew it was a good idea to legalise it.

We had to wait nearly a half century before the Canadian government finally did so. But they did so. And nowadays, it's a normal thing.

I haven't started smoking again. And the numbers of those who do smoke it, or otherwise ingest it, have not gone up. But the police can pay attention to more important things now.