Pubdate: Wed, 04 Jun 2008
Source: Province, The (CN BC)
Copyright: 2008 Canwest Publishing Inc.
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/476
Author: Peter Lipskis

MARIJUANA PROFITS

Alan Ferguson's opinion column (June 3), headlined "Legalizing 
marijuana would cripple the profits of the violent drug lords," is right on.

Other "partners in crime" who have vested interests in prohibition 
are gung-ho, grow-buster inspectors and police-department budgets, 
corporate liquor and pharmaceutical industries as well as potentially 
privatized-for-profit prisons -- all of whom lobby government 
legislators to perpetuate essentially racist-in-origin, Hitler-era laws.

Peter Lipskis,

Vancouver
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