The new Liberal government of Canada has promised to act quickly to legalise marijuana for general use, which would make Canada the first G-20 country to end cannabis prohibition on a national level.
For police forces across Canada, the month of August is harvest time.
Officers slip on their coveralls, grab thick gardening gloves, shoulder machetes and begin the annual ritual of chopping down marijuana plants hidden in cornfields, remote mountain valleys and forest clearings.
If the grower is unlucky enough to be caught red-handed, he is cuffed and taken off to court.
