Pubdate: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 Source: Toronto Sun (CN ON) Copyright: 2016 Canoe Limited Partnership Contact: http://www.torontosun.com/letter-to-editor Website: http://torontosun.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/457 Author: Michael Boehlke Page: 16 Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor. GOING TO POT I'm laughing really hard right now at all of the crying little liberal potheads who feel cheated by their knight in shining armour who rode into Ottawa on his Liberal Red Bong last year! This proves that pot indeed makes people stupid. Consider two other widely used drugs: Alcohol and tobacco. When do you think it was more free for enterprising individuals to produce, distribute, and consume these two drugs: Before or after the government began taxing them? The reason why the black market marijuana industry was relatively un-policed under the Harper administration was that it had no plans to derive revenue from it. And since recreational production and use of marijuana was a non-violent, non-destructive crime that made the perpetrators and customers fairly apathetic, they turned a blind eye to it. Once the government controls a revenue stream, it greedily guards it with the precision and efficiency of the most well-oiled machine. At least they are efficient at one thing. Get ready for more busts, more raids, more fines, more jail time, and "high" pot prices. Sorry potheads, your utopian free market just went up in smoke. Michael Boehlke Mississauga - ------------------------------------ (Bummer, man) - --- MAP posted-by: Matt