Pubdate: Tue, 29 Apr 2003
Source: Winnipeg Sun (CN MB)
Copyright: 2003 Canoe Limited Partnership
Contact:  http://www.fyiwinnipeg.com/winsun.shtml
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/503
Author: Jason Sudyn
Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor.

SELL THE STUFF

Legalize marijuana, sell it in stores like alcohol and take half the tax 
revenue. That will generate enough to end hallway medicine forever, build 
more hospitals, hire more doctors and nurses.

Take the other half and put it towards treatment programs to help people 
break the addiction of the hard drugs like crack, meth and heroin.

Also, give more money to police to fight the spread of these drugs and the 
street gangs that profit and grow from them. At the very least make 
medicinal marijuana available to those who need it now without doctors 
having to put there careers on the line for prescribing it.

Jason Sudyn

Winnipeg

(Somehow, we think we're a long way from supermarket weed.)
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