Well, the first matter is that it's been referred to here a number of times that we have a concern about young people. The fact of the matter is, if you look at the individuals generally involved in the drug trade, they're everything but young people. I know this, having looked specifically at over 30,000 grow-op situations in British Columbia. The average person involved in drug production in British Columbia, for example, is 33 years old; they have seven prior convictions and a 13-year criminal history. I'm still waiting to see the stats on this notion that somehow we're arresting people for possession and throwing them in jail for long periods of time. I know what the average person had in their possession on a production case in British Columbia: it was 92 plants—that's for possession.
The other thing is that it was also mentioned that the drug problem has not declined in the United States. That is not true, particularly if we're using, as one beacon, the University of Michigan's Monitoring the Future survey, which over the last decade has shown basically year-over-year declines in virtually every type of drug, including alcohol and tobacco. By the way, we've also had declines here, not across Canada necessarily, but certainly we've had that in British Columbia. So there's no question there have been declines.
There have been dramatic declines on the production side in certain types of drugs in the United States, particularly methamphetamines. In several states, they had one initiative or another, and they basically crushed it. The notion that it's not effective is just completely wrong.