Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for your presentations, although I must say at the outset that I'm troubled by much of what I've heard this afternoon.
We have heard the argument from time to time that if we just stopped prohibiting marijuana, magically all organized crime would disappear. As wonderful as that world would be, I have some problems with that simplistic theory.
I listened, Mr. Dubro, with interest to your libertarian defence for abolishing prohibition: that an individual should be able to do what he or she wants in the privacy of his or her own home without state interference. But then you drew the line at marijuana and ecstasy, and that's where your argument broke down. As a libertarian, which I'm assuming you are, based on what I heard you say, if you ought to be free to do marijuana and ecstasy in the privacy of your own home, or in public for that matter, why not heroin, why not cocaine, why not crystal meth?