Hate to say it, but any sort of change to the legality of cannabis in Canada is going to come under heavy crossfire from a lot of different groups. Having grown up on the praries where the political atmosphere is generally conservative, I can already make a short list of where the biggest whinging is going to come from; i.e. small communities of people where the the average age is over 40 and most of the people are highly religious. Sorry, I'm not trying to pick these people out, but from my own experience they're usually the ones who are most adverse to change. Decrim. as adverse as the effects may be is at least a starting point from which people can be made to see that cannabis isn't nearly as detrimental as the past century of propoganda has ingrained into them. There's a big difference from having the opinions of someone who is allowed to smoke up, and someone who gets high illegally. The only way change ever happens is by allowed trickles of greater learning conjoin and become a river.