[GreenLantern2814]

I have actively tried to avoid this topic as the discussion rarely goes anywhere constructive. Like Apple v Android, domestic cars vs imports, really anything, nobody seems to be getting their mind changed based on the same arguments that each side continues to trot out. This post is directed to whoever ends up in power at the municipal, provincial, and federal levels.

I like my weed and I like my booze. I've enjoyed both for many years, and not once have I had the urge to steal/rape/murder as a result of using these substances. I don't see that changing. I've never driven drunk or high, I've never missed a day of work to go smoke or pound a few beers.

I'm not asking the world from my leadership. I'm not asking for a bullet train to Edmonton, a new fleet of fighter jets, five doctors for every puppy, I'm asking for you all to let me buy this stuff in a goddamn store like a civilized human being. The worst part about weed is waiting in some Home Depot parking lot for half an hour to have a horrible forced conversation with the dude who knows a guy.

#### you, government, for making me do that. If you can trust me with a two-six of absinthe, if you can trust me to drive a car, if you trust me to be a contributing member of this society, trust me to be able to buy weed over the counter. I'm doing it anyway. We're all doing it anyway. So decide for yourselves if you want a cut, or if you'd like to continue with this ######ed song and dance that's been going on since William Randolph Hearst was running things.