Canada is now the first Western nation to legalize marijuana for medical uses. The new regulations allow the prescribing of marijuana for the terminally ill, those with specific medical conditions (such as multiple sclerosis patients with severe pain) and seriously ill patients who have failed "conventional treatments."

The decision to allow the weed is monumental -- and irrelevant.

That marijuana was illegal in the first place makes sense to the casual observer. After all, pot is a street drug that is both addictive and, with sustained use, harmful.

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