Pubdate: Fri, 27 Mar 2009
Source: Surrey Leader (CN BC)
Copyright: 2009 Surrey Leader
Contact:  http://www.surreyleader.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1236
Author: E.W. Bopp
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n317/a02.html

HIGH ANXIETY

Re: "An argument gone to pot" editorial.

Hurrah for those folks who have found the "truth" that so long has 
escaped us all.

Legalize (decriminalize) marijuana and presto, gangs and gang 
violence would disappear ...virtually "overnight!"

But that's not all. In their enthusiasm, they missed the collateral 
benefit of having solved B.C.'s problem of declining tourism from 
south of the border and elsewhere.

Just think of the tourism potential of a mass influx of drug-deprived 
folks descending on the "True North, Free and Legally Drugged," 
pouring untold billions of much-needed tourist dollars into our 
ailing economy, with many of them undoubtedly wishing to stay permanently.

Indeed, that's the kind of "stimulus" (pun intended) that would 
really help us all get through the economic recession with a "buzz."

E.W. Bopp,

Tsawwassen
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