Pubdate: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 Source: Calgary Sun, The (CN AB) Copyright: 2008 The Calgary Sun Contact: http://www.calgarysun.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/67 Author: Tom Ashby Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n893/a04.html Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor. YUPPIE FACTOR Re: "...what went up your nose Saturday Night" (Rick Bell, Sept, 25). He is absolutely correct about neo-"yuppies" and how their wealth translates into the "high life" and subsequent proliferation of gang related cocaine operations. The only solution to the cocaine issue is all or nothing. Either you declare total war and cut off at the source and be completely backed up by "their" governments to wipe out crops continually or you stop messing around and legalize and control it. Why is it 20 and 30 years ago cocaine was so available and equally illegal that "gang violence" was unheard of? Tom Ashby (Interesting question.) - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom