Pubdate: Fri, 13 Sep 2002
Source: Edmonton Sun (CN AB)
Copyright: 2002, Canoe Limited Partnership.
Contact:  http://www.fyiedmonton.com/htdocs/edmsun.shtml
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/135
Author: Steve Connell
Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor, headline by newshawk
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/decrim.htm (Decrim/Legalization)

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE CANNABIS

All you people who oppose legalized pot need to wake up and smell the 
cannabis. Do you really believe that making pot legal will all of a sudden 
make it more accessible? It can't get more accessible! Canada is swimming 
in pot. Anybody who wants some can find it easily whether they are a 
60-year-old hippie at the folk fest or a high school kid at the senior 
prom. The only thing that legalizing pot and selling it like booze will do 
is remove the criminal element. I don't use it and like most parents, I 
don't want my kids to, either, which is why I would far sooner see it 
regulated like booze rather than having it sold on the school grounds.

Steve Connell

(Selling pot in stores like booze would be making it way more accessible 
than it is now.)
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