Pubdate: Sun, 20 Aug 2006
Source: Montreal Gazette (CN QU)
Copyright: 2006 The Gazette, a division of Southam Inc.
Contact:  http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/274
Author: Greg Francisco

LEGALIZE AND TAX POT

Recent reports that up to 10 per cent of Montreal high school students
might be addicted to marijuana are hair-raising, indeed.

How much longer are we going to leave the manufacture, distribution
and sale of marijuana unregulated, untaxed and controlled by criminal
syndicates?

Teenage tobacco addiction has plummeted over the past two decades, as
teenage cannabis use remained steady or even rose.

Tobacco is sold by licensed businesses that employ clerks who check
ID.

Marijuana is sold by gangs. All they demand to see from our kids is
the cash.

There's a better way. Legalize, regulate, tax, control.

Greg Francisco

Paw Paw, Mich.
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