Pubdate: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 Source: Calgary Sun, The (CN AB) Copyright: 2004 The Calgary Sun Contact: http://www.fyicalgary.com/calsun.shtml Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/67 Author: Harry Webster Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04.n361.a09.html Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor, headline by newshawk ORGANIZED CRIME SUBSIDY BILLS Thank you for Bill Kaufmann's excellent article on the perversion that is prohibition. ("Pot shots," March 1.) Canadian governments have been aware of this perversion for at least 30 years and still we get more organized crime subsidy bills -- which is what anything less than legalization amounts to. I feel confident that if Kaufmann was so predisposed, he could find a "smoking gun link" between the elected crooks in government and the unelected crooks (organized crime). Harry Webster (You're sounding a little paranoid, Harry.) - --- MAP posted-by: Larry Seguin