CANNABIS CULTURE - When it comes to magazines that will get you disowned by your conservative parents when they find them sitting next to the toilet in your apartment, VICE is at the top of the stack (above late-1980s copies of Swank and Barley Legal, and an old issue of Mother Jones with the pages stuck together).
Earlier this month, Washington and Colorado voted to legalize recreational marijuana for adults. One week later, Liberal Party of Canada leadership contender Justin Trudeau announced to a high school audience in Prince Edward Island that he is "a huge supporter of decriminalization" of marijuana.
Canadian pot smokers and their supporters on Wednesday applauded the US states of Washington and Colorado for legalizing marijuana, and called for a similar change in Canada.
While Barack Obama and Mitt Romney make most of the U.S. headlines, a referendum in Washington state may have a more profound effect on British Columbians.