Well, yes, I agree with you. In the United States, a presidential commission recently reported that every three weeks they suffer the equivalent of a 9/11 because of opiate overdoses, and yet the overall policies are not changing. There's a real contradiction between what's happening in the real world and what's happening in the realm of politics.
I will be in Ottawa, I think, in November. An event is scheduled, I believe, with the participation of the former health minister, now indigenous affairs minister, Jane Philpott. I trust that if the event goes forward, we will be talking about this material. I totally share your impatience and frustration with the lack of congruence. The fact is that with all substances that we've talked about today—marijuana included—the licit substances like tobacco and alcohol can have deleterious negative effects. It's not a question of anybody saying that these things are good; it's a question of asking what's the most rational policy towards them. Just as we've learned with alcohol what prohibition costs, to great cost; just as we should have learned by now about the impact of prohibition on opiates and other drugs; and as the impact and the irrationality of prohibitive approaches on marijuana are just being finally realized, I hope at some point we get to the stage of rationality when it comes to drug policy in general. I wish for that no less fervently than you do.