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All roads currently lead to the marijuana’s eventual liberalization: both the NDP and the Liberal Party support some form of decriminalization or legalization.

A change of government, then, will see the country embrace some less draconian approach to the drug.

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(The Greens support liberalization, too, of course, although God help us if they take power.)

The biggest mistake any of these parties could make, then — and sadly, the mostly likely one — would be to give the government a monopoly on the sale and production of cannabis.

When legal barriers on pot begin to fall, we’ll be presented with the opportunity to create common-sense regulation that avoids the pitfalls of our haphazard and counter-productive experiences with regulating alcohol.