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Dope And The Dopey Way We Deal With It
By Hempology | January 11, 2004
From the Times Colonist, January 11th, 2003
Why not take the fun out of trafficking
By Patricia Gatenby, Port Alberni
Years ago it was rum-running, and a still hidden out on the back 40. Today it is marijuana fields, grow-ops in
empty houses, biker gangs and millions of lost dollars.
The police are unlikely to get the better ofi t. Why not give in, legalize it and have the government take over
the preparation and sale of it through specialty shops like the old fashioned cigarette shops?
Is it really any worse than alcohol? Look at the money the government makes on alcohol; how much it costs to
sort of control marijuana in both growth an distribution, the cost of electricity stolen and ruin of houses,
the policing? I think we are just encouraging people to become criminals.
Let us change the system and take the fun out of it.
Marijuana ban corrupts society
By Chuck Bayer, Port Alberni
You let the criminals take over when you gave them monopoly control over a product used by 10 per cent of
Canadians.
Every stop of the way the government’s handling of matters has made them worse. Creating more draconian
laws in regards to marijuana-growing will ensure taht the price goes up while the demand remains the same
or grows – ensuring even more prohibition-related violence and substantially more money that needs to be
laundered.
So the question becomes: When will we do what needs to be done? Marijuana must be regulated like alcohol.
Unfortunately – as displayed by the recent legislative raids – those making the marijuana laws appear
to be closely related to those profiting from prohibition and our governments may already be beholden
to the status quo to protect associates in the underground economy.
We in the anti-prohibition movement have been telling you all along that prohibition corrupts all
institutions.
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