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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

The stigma is about more than illegality. I brought up legalization around some co-workers recently. All 40-something. All parents. First, none would admit to smoking pot. They made allusive comments about it, hinted maybe they'd smoked it in the past, but nobody would come out and say they smoked it now (though I'm pretty sure at least a couple do). When I asked if they'd be okay with anyone at their house smoking dope with kids around, like the way they have a beer or wine at a BBQ, the answer was an resounding eff no. Never.

Social attitudes about things like that don't change like flipping a switch just because a law changes. Most of the pot-smokers I know, grown adults in their 40s, have still never admitted to their parents that they smoke dope, and they never will. When pot is legal in Canada, there will still be a lot of people who will only smoke it privately and secretly.

Smoking pot around kids is not even close to drinking a beer around kids...that's not a stigma it's just common sense.