In October of 2018, the federal government legalized marijuana. The citizens of Canada were granted the right to smoke marijuana for recreational purposes. Jeremy Bentham, the original utilitarian thinker, wrote about the “Fundamental Axiom” indicating that morality is dictated by the greatest happiness principle (Brand). Years later, John Stuart Mill reconsidered the principles of Utilitarianism by explaining how a good action is the one which brings the greatest quantity and quality of pleasure to the greatest number of people (Mill). He also suggested that there are higher pleasures…