Canada to introduce legislation to legalize recreational cannabis
I&#x27;m a little bit worried about this, actually.<p>I&#x27;ve been to Vancouver and it wasn&#x27;t a very pretty sight.<p>The amount of homelessness and crime is 10 times more what I&#x27;ve seen anywhere else in North America.<p>There&#x27;s an entire section (several blocks) in the Downtown area that&#x27;s full of homeless people and the streets smell like urine.<p>Shops even in areas far away from downtown put posters on their windows saying they don&#x27;t hold cash overnight. i.e. please thieves don&#x27;t break in at night because you will not find any cash.<p>At the same time, Marijuana seemed like it was very easy to obtain, and <i>for free</i> too! There plenty of shops that give it away for free &quot;for medical purposes&quot;. Some of them even advertise that they have a doctor who will prescribe it for you in case you don&#x27;t already have a prescription!<p>I know correlation is not necessarily causation but easy access to Marijuana was the only significant difference between Vancouver and all the other cities I&#x27;ve visited in North America.