Pubdate: Mon, 06 Mar 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: Tim Meehan
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada)

A NEW KIND OF PROFILING

While we've all heard of racial profiling, reading The Gazette ("How 
to spot a grow house in the 'burbs'," March 2) taught me that there 
is also another kind: provincial profiling.

If police claim that a car with Ontario plates parked in the driveway 
suggests someone is growing marijuana inside, I should be careful 
where I park when I visit family and friends in the West Island, lest 
the neighbours snitch on them.

The war on marijuana and marijuana consumers just gets more and more 
ridiculous and absurd with each passing day.

Tim Meehan

Ottawa
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