– Ontario Court Justice Robert Selkirk, in R. v. Racine, refused to accept a guilty plea for possession of marijuana, saying: “I recall distinctly the Prime Minister in the House of Commons saying it’s going to be legalized. I’m not going to be the last judge in this country to convict somebody of simple possession of marijuana. . . .You can’t have the Prime Minister announcing it’s going to be legalized and then stand up and prosecute it. It just can’t happen. It’s a ludicrous situation, ludicrous.” Selkirk recognized the reality; there is indeed an urgent need to rush into decriminalization. Young men are in jail because of pot, people lose their jobs because they were caught smoking a joint, and police use marijuana as a pretext to detain and search. In short, it is not marijuana that destroys lives but its criminalization.