Pubdate: Sat, 29 Jun 2002
Source: Globe and Mail (Canada)
Copyright: 2002, The Globe and Mail Company
Contact:  http://www.globeandmail.ca/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/168
Section: Page A16
Related: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n1195/a05.html
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada)

O CANNABIS

We congratulate Vancouver on being named the world's best marijuana city by 
venerable High Times magazine. Though naturally we've never inhaled, we 
understand -- from a friend, of course -- that the city on the left coast 
is a deserving winner.

There are reportedly more than 20,000 marijuana-growing operations in 
Vancouver and the surrounding Lower Mainland, providing ample supplies of 
high-quality, reasonably priced weed to complement some superb scenery in 
which to smoke. The crop generates annual revenues estimated as high as 
$30-billion, rivalling the $36-billion in cash receipts generated last year 
by all of Canada's "legitimate" crops combined. (And you thought that all 
those smiling, relaxed Vancouverites were simply enjoying the natural high 
from their beautiful surroundings.)

Given such a concentration of pot in one city, we eagerly await other, 
related honours for Vancouver. Like the 7-Eleven award for highest per 
capita purchases of hoagies and nacho chips after midnight.
- ---
MAP posted-by: Ariel