As a regular feature leading up to the Oct. 19 federal election, we will ask you to weigh in on issues that matter.

Last week, we asked:

How should the marijuana issue be handled?

Here’s what you said:

“I think it should be decriminalized because it would mean more control over distribution and it could be regulated.”

Linda Guenther, Aurora

“We should go back to allowing those with a medical license to grow their own because we have just created a conglomerate culture and people who need it are having trouble getting it. The current policy is great for business, but not people.”

Michael Smith, Aurora

Police have found a stash of 500 cannabis plants today in a massive indoor dope-growing operation.

Inspector Naila Hassan said police searched warehouse accommodation on Wordsworth St, Cambridge.

"This led to the discovery of a large commercial indoor cannabis growing operation in which over 500 plants were recovered," Ms Hassan said.

"As a result of this a 23-year-old male was arrested and will be appearing in the Hamilton District Court today facing charges relating to the manufacturing of cannabis oil, cultivation of cannabis, possession of cannabis for supply and the possession of drug related equipment."

Ms Hassan said Western Waikato CIB staff joined Cambridge police to conduct the raid.

Pot and banking don’t mix, the Ohio Bankers League said Wednesday in opposing a November election proposal to legalize marijuana.

“Our board of directors voted to oppose state Issue 3 because of the conflict it would create between state and federal law,” Mike Adelman, league president and chief executive officer, said in a statement.

The league represents 200 large and small commercial and savings banks and savings and loan associations, with assets up to $3 trillion.

Medicinal Marijuana is no different than standard marijuana. Your son is home from college for Thanksgiving and he brought along his laundry. He also brought his Medical Marijuana card. You and your husband are trying not to freak out. Can he be arrested? Can you be arrested?

A federal inspection station on Interstate 10 in the West Texas desert earned the nickname "checkpoint of the stars" for all the entertainers who kept getting busted there. In the past six years, Willie Nelson, Snoop Dogg, Nelly and Fiona Apple were all arrested for possession of marijuana.

These days, though, after a decision by a local lawman, everyone from personal pot smokers to medium-size marijuana traffickers can avoid jail.

The Sierra Blanca Border Patrol checkpoint was once the bane of pot smokers driving from Los Angeles to Texas. Green-suited federal agents and their uncanny drug dogs would make 20 to 30 busts a day.

Nick Clegg is launching a campaign to persuade EU leaders to back global reform of drugs laws, warning that the current punitive approach has failed to curb the multibillion trade in illicit substances and has criminalised millions of young people.

With 2016 due to be a huge year for marijuana legalization advocates, the questions have been coming fast and hard at next year’s presidential candidates – about both their personal feelings on cannabis, and how they would address marijuana policy.

Some of the responses we’ve heard have included blatant falsities – if not outright lies. This, of course, is to be expected during campaign season. But with marijuana legalization’s fate largely resting in the hands of the next administration, hearing candidates spout lies about, or exhibit a failure to understand cannabis in the least bit, is disheartening.

Here are seven of those big lies, and which candidates are espousing them.

A cannabis farmer jailed for four years for operating drug factories with his next door neighbour has been told to pay £21,000 or face more time behind bars.

Police found more than 60 cannabis plants when they raided the properties which were both owned by Carl Berry in Primrose Bank, Langley, in April last year.

Berry, who was described as the leader of the operation, was jailed for a total of four-and-a-half years after admitting producing cannabis and possession of the drug with intent to supply in July last year.

At the time, police said the operation could have been worth £70,000.

Carl Berry

Raids in the West Midlands netted about £1 million of cannabis last month.

One of many bags of cannabis seized by West Midlands Police

The West Midlands Police cannabis disposal team said during September they seized an estimated £1 million of cannabis, and recycled 398 light bulbs.

This includes a raid earlier this week at a home in Wolverhampton, where police found 351 plants in an attic and downstairs.

A 36-year-old man was arrested at the Granville Street, All Saints address on Tuesday.

Earlier this month police found an eight foot cannabis plant growing in a back garden in Stourport.

In August, more than £2million worth of cannabis was seized, with 3,912 plants destroyed.