 From: Cannabis: Our Position For A Canadian Public Policy Report Of The Senate Special Committee On Illegal Drugs, September 2002 
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Senator Larry Campbell"Let's legalize marijuana. Let’s just legalize it, OK? It's 7 billion dollars in British Columbia. Let's legalize it, let's tax the hell out of it, and let’s take all that money and put it into health care."
Born in 1948 and raised in Brantford, Ontario, Senator Larry Campbell worked as a steelworker in his early years. After moving to Vancouver in 1969, he worked for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, becoming a member of the Drug Squad in 1973. He changed careers in 1981 and established the first Vancouver District Coroner's office. In 1996 Larry was appointed BC Chief Coroner at a time when drug overdose deaths in the province skyrocketed to as high as 400 deaths per year. Larry advocated publicly for drug use to be considered a health issue and has been instrumental in focusing international attention on that issue. He helped develop the Four-Pillar Approach to Vancouver's drug crisis — enforcement, treatment, prevention and harm reduction. Larry retired as BC Chief Coroner in 2000, but continued to advocate on behalf of the thousands of people suffering from drug-related harm. Larry was elected Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia in 2002. He ran on a platform that called for, among other things, creation of the first supervised injection sites for drugs in the Western Hemisphere. In 2005, Larry was appointed to the Canadian Senate. Larry was a script writer for the Gemini award-winning television series Da Vinci's Inquest, which chronicles the life of a Vancouver coroner. He has a degree in public administration and a Masters of Business Administration. He and his family live in Vancouver.  
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