Our mayor seriously rocks. I attended a talk by him recently and thought you might enjoy some of his choice quotes, as scrawled down by me on a post-it.

On Drugs
Let's make it like tobacco, tax the hell out of it and put it into the health care system.

On Pot
I've never tried it myself. I'm sort of saving myself for that right moment.

On Safe Injection Sites
I still don't believe I need permission to open one.

On Crime
All this booley about Vancouver being an unsafe place to live is just that.

The Downtown Eastside from the point of view of physical safety is probably the safest place in town.

On Americans
They don't like me a lot.

On Drug Education
There's this DARE program in the States that just makes me gag. (He then proceeded to compare it a character in a Cheech and Chong Movie)

Be Real.

On BC Bud
It's the best. Nothing to be ashamed of. (He also noted that Canadian (or BC?) pot makes up only 5% of the pot in the U.S.)

On a Senior U.S. Official's Threats to Close the Border if the Safe Injection Sites Went Ahead
I told him 'then you'll be looking at L.A. in the dark and thirsty.'

On Government
I'm not big on rules and bureaucracy.