Pubdate: Fri, 06 Sep 2002
Source: Toronto Sun (CN ON)
Copyright: 2002, Canoe Limited Partnership.
Contact:  http://www.fyitoronto.com/torsun.shtml
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/457
Author: John Taylor
Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor, headline by newshawk

HYPOCRITICAL GOVERNMENT

WHILE TOBACCO firms face the wrath of the government and their 
multi-million-dollar anti-smoking campaigns, this same government is 
getting ready to give the green light to smoking another harmful substance 
- - pot. The hypocritical action of the government is astonishing, though not 
surprising. As they whittle away health benefits and raise taxes, will 
permitting the consumption of marijuana benefit the people of Canada in any 
way? Allowing and permitting marijuana smoke to funnel through our towns 
and villages while killing our youth is no success story. We are a proud 
country because of our heritage and our morality, not our flimsy laws made 
by political weaklings like Martin Cauchon.

John Taylor

(We were with you right up to that last bit about pot "killing our youth")
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