Pubdate: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 Source: NOW Magazine (CN ON) Copyright: 2007 NOW Communications Inc. Contact: http://www.nowtoronto.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/282 Author: Russell Barth POPPYCOCK It is sickening and absurd that in a country where we boast about our freedoms, we are free to wear a plastic poppy on our lapel but not to grow a single poppy plant in our own backyard. The irony is that this pain-relieving plant is illegal, and therefore lucrative for the Taliban, who are using the money they make from opium prohibition to kill more soldiers. Some freedom. Russell Barth Medical Marijuana Licence Holder Ottawa - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom