Pubdate: Tue, 30 Jul 2002
Source: Calgary Sun, The (CN AB)
Copyright: 2002 The Calgary Sun
Contact:  http://www.fyicalgary.com/calsun.shtml
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/67
Author: Kirk Muse
Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor; headline by newshawk
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n1405/a09.html
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada)

BEER INDUSTRY BACKS CANNABIS PROHIBITION

I'm writing about Matthew M. Elrod's thoughtful July 28 letter in which he 
observed some cannabis users drink alcohol but they tend to drink less than 
non-cannabis users. I'm sure this has not escaped the manufactures of beer 
and other alcoholic beverages. Perhaps our counterproductive policies of 
cannabis prohibition continue because of multimillion-dollar contributions 
from the beer industry into the campaign coffers and pockets of 
politicians. Perhaps? Perhaps, perhaps is the wrong word.

Kirk Muse

(Cute Kirk, but it's potty to suggest marijuana laws are the result of some 
capitalist conspiracy.)
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