Pubdate: Thu, 17 Mar 2005
Source: NOW Magazine (CN ON)
Copyright: 2005 NOW Communications Inc.
Contact:  http://www.nowtoronto.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/282
Author: Mitch Cutler

POT LAWS NEED TO GROW OP

It wasn't a crazed man with a gun who killed four RCMP officers in Alberta 
last week (NOW, March 10-16). It was antiquated pot laws and out-of-control 
gun culture from south of the border creeping north. If weed weren't 
illegal, those cops wouldn't have been there in the first place. Instead, 
it would have been a bylaw enforcement officer delivering a fine for an 
unlicensed grow op. Getting tough with grow ops, as Anne McLellan promises 
to do, will only raise the stakes and make those who operate them more 
violent and more desperate.

Mitch Cutler

Toronto 
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