"would be a step in the right direction for us"

No, it's a step in the wrong direction. It's 180 degrees from where you want to be going. You honestly think the state, which is the source of prohibition, is going to be the solution to it? You're saying all the same things the ignorant people here said, too. It's why it happened - people like you didn't bother to do the research, and blindly believed what they were told by the state. Now our private gardens and dispensaries are raided and people's lives are shattered more than ever before, and the licensed producers (govt insiders with million dollar licenses to grow) continue to lobby the government to crack down on "illegal" cannabis. Get it? Illegal cannabis, in a country where cannabis has been "legalized"? Hellooooooo?

Let me know when you've found 45 minutes to educate yourself on the matter. I've predicted everything that has happened in the past 10 years, worldwide, in regards to legalization. It is NOT a step in the right direction for anyone except prisons, government, and licensed producers (corporate weed). The people lose in legalization.

What you want is decriminalization - the end of the bad laws around cannabis. Not more bad laws.

"the situation in Canada looks a million times better than what we have here"

I predicted NZ would be told things are rosy here, and the people would eat it up. That's why I recorded the entire process and put it into a 45 minute documentary - so ANYONE could see what a lie it is, and how much worse things are once Prohibition 2.0 ("legalization") comes in.

If you won't take it from the person who was at the center of it all from day 1, and was correct about everything he's ever said about it, I'm not sure if anyone can reach you with the truth.