To be clear, though, on July 1, pot will become legal, not decriminalized. There is a subtle, but important difference. When pot is decriminalized, police will not charge you for smoking or possessing it, but there is no legal way to grow it or sell it for non-medical use. So, even now, when pot has been decriminalized in Vancouver for some time, its production and sales are largely controlled by biker gangs and it is often grown in dangerous grow-op houses. Full legalization can’t come soon enough.
And I’m glad @SeamusBellamy mentioned insite. That and other harm reduction centres. Their positive impacts are profound. It angers me that these sorts of places are not replicated throughout the world where we see addiction problems.
