Pubdate: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 Source: Vancouver Courier (CN BC) Copyright: 2008 Vancouver Courier Contact: http://www.vancourier.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/474 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n202/a06.html Author: Alex Waterhouse-Hayward COURIER HOOKED ON SEX AND DRUGS To the editor: I believe that Mr. Potvin may have been sunning himself on the warm beaches of Pearl Harbor while indulging in mind-altering substances when he wrote "Bureaucrats forget weed's influence on art world" (Feb. 20). Potvin states that marijuana is "the clearly harmless substance." He then equates our cultural renaissance with, "If pot wasn't available and smokeable out of the back door, it's doubtful there would be any musicians to play any neighbourhood venue in the city." In Michael Kissinger's interview (10 Questions, a thinly disguised version of the New York Times Magazine's Questions) with Kate Hammett-Vaughan he reveals to Courier readers that Cindy Lauper's second single, '"She Bop" was a thinly veiled ode to female masturbation." And I won't go to the Potvin territory on how all those Be-pop (should have been Be-Bop) musicians flourished on heroin. If this "journalism" continues I may have to buy a couple of budgies and a cage. The Vancouver Courier will come in handy. Unless, of course, we get to read more on flying saucer sightings by Geoff Olson. Alex Waterhouse-Hayward, Vancouver - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake