Pubdate: Tue, 08 Jan 2002
Source: Cambridge Reporter, The (CN ON)
Copyright: 2002 The Cambridge Reporter
Contact:  http://www.cambridge-reporter.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1470
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n018/a04.html?2434
Author: Bruce Symington
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada)

A SURE WAY TO FIX PROBLEM

In your Jan. 4 editorial, you opined that home grow operations pose "a 
threat to communities that can only be stopped with tough, serious sentencing."

I would suggest another way to stop them, and that is, to take out the 
profit motive.

When marijuana is relegalised, the price differential between what the 
legal suppliers charge, tax and all, and the cost of this type of illegal 
production, will drop to such an extent that the grow ops will disappear.

There will, of course, be small home grows for personal use, but because 
they will be able to be done legally, there should be little risk from them.

Sort of like home brewing of beer, and at the same level of risk to society.

Bruce Symington, Medicine Hat, Alta.
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