Pubdate: Fri, 16 Sep 2011
Source: Goldstream Gazette (Victoria, CN BC)
Copyright: 2011 Black Press
Contact: http://drugsense.org/url/vvfJCciY
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1291
Author: William Perry

USE LEGALIZED POT TO PAY OFF HST

Pay off the HST shortfall with marijuana. Prohibition doesn't work, in
fact has cost more than it was worth.

In the last 40 years, we've spent significant amounts of money to
control the growing and sale of, arrest, prosecute, and send marijuana
dealers to the joint, as it were. Imagine the cost to society and to
families affected. Simply legalize the drug, regulate it and tax it.

Such a move would reduce the number of police officers used for
enforcement, eliminate a huge number of prison beds allocated for drug
offenders and add dollars to the public coffers.

Legalize, regulate, consume and tax marijuana. It's one way to pay off
the $2.2 billion shortfall caused by scrapping the HST.

William Perry

Victoria
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