Pubdate: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 Source: NOW Magazine (Canada) Copyright: 2004 NOW Communications Inc. Contact: http://www.nowtoronto.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/282 Author: R. Cecchini Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n430/a10.html ANTI-POT HYSTERICS Anti-drug summits like the one Matthew Mernagh writes about (NOW, March 11-17) never cease to amaze me. These people with their vile green weed! They're killing our children! So thanks, Mernagh, for reminding us how the anti-pot fundamentalists like to get into a lather. And look how we turned out! We're all giving birth to two-headed children! I remember sitting with a doctor once at a party, listening to her talk about how pot makes users psychotic - all while she took a huge haul off a joint someone had offered. Nobody wants to talk about taxing pot, because it would solve too many of our problems, and the talking heads of disinformation - i.e., Public Security Minister Monte Kwinter - would have to think of some other ways of spending our tax dollars. At the same time, Kwinter professes to be in favour of decrim. Wow! I don't think I want to see his idea of a drug czar! R. Cecchini Toronto - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake