Legalize pot, says Mayor Campbell

As for large-scale pot producers, Campbell a former RCMP drug officer who now chairs the city's police board says the new law achieves nothing.

He says big-time growers will continue to risk arrest despite tougher penalties written into the new legislation.

"As long as you have that huge profit for, let's say face it, not all that much risk, it's just going to continue on," says the mayor.

He also says the new legislation won't do much to improve community safety, because it doesn't address the issues of grow op violence and gang drug wars.