Pubdate: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 Source: Winnipeg Free Press (CN MB) Copyright: 2003 Winnipeg Free Press Contact: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/502 Author: Glenn Holms EASY FOR TEENS TO BUY MARIJUANA This is in response to a letter from Andy Chiasson of Portage la Prairie (May 30). Some people don't get it. So let's enlighten them. It is much easier for a teenager to buy marijuana on the black market than it is to walk into a liquor store and buy alcohol. Not to mention that if it were legal and regulated, you probably wouldn't have the cashier say to you "I have some heroin, LSD, crack and ecstasy under the counter if you'd like to try some?" like the drug dealer does with another pocket. If you think about it, virtually all naturally occurring drugs/medicine are illegal, while most manmade synthetic drugs are legal, no matter how many side-effects they may have. You don't think it has anything to do with the fact that manmade drugs are patentable and the huge globalistic pharmaceutical conglomerates can control (profit from) one and not the other, do you? GLENN HOLMS Winnipeg - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake