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.)
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MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom