According to Canadian mass media, it may appear that the only reason marijuana is kept illegal is so that grow-ops can pop up in suburban neighbourhoods for concerned citizens to find and report to the police, all to justify the "war on Drugs" mentality.
For the Canadian national drug policy criminalizes marijuana manufacture and limits the amount a person can possess before possession charges may be applied.
By making illegal the possession of marijuana and by criminalizing its manufacture, Canada can justify a war-on-drugs mentality with stronger laws regarding marijuana.
In essence, the law makes marijuana valuable to criminals who then can create demand.
Grow-ops flourish specifically because marijuana is illegal. If it were legal and regulated by government, illegal grow-ops would case to exist.
Consequently, if marijuana were legal, then the danger associated with manufacture would be eliminated.
Between 1999 and 2003, the decriminalization of marijuana was debated in Ottawa.
Because of strong pressure by the US, much of the recommendations made by Canadian senators were quietly ignored by Ottawa.
Additionally, the national Green Team was too lucrative for the RCMP to agree to changes in the law that would impact their public service.
Thus, criminalizing marijuana profits both the criminals and the police.
And that's what makes marijuana dangerous, not the plant itself.
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