Pubdate: Sat, 05 Mar 2005
Source: Calgary Sun, The (CN AB)
Copyright: 2005 The Calgary Sun
Contact:  http://www.fyicalgary.com/calsun.shtml
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/67
Author: Jan Burton
Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor, headline by newshawk.

GOVERNMENT CAN GROW, SELL AND TAX MARIJUANA

How horribly ironic that four police were killed trying to protect us
from a drug that doesn't kill us. Just as with alcohol prohibition, a
widely used substance has been driven underground and violent,
organized criminals are more than happy to fill the void. Many
Canadians will smoke marijuana no matter what the law says. The
government can grow, sell and tax soft drugs or we can leave a
multi-billion dollar industry in the hands of modern-day Al Capones
and accept the resulting bloodshed and gang wars.

Jan Burton

(That's like saying if you legalize everything, there'd be no crime.)
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