Pubdate: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 Source: Daily Observer, The (CN ON) Copyright: 2007, Osprey Media Group Inc. Contact: http://www.thedailyobserver.ca/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2615 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n1110/a04.html Author: Kirk Muse ONLY ONE WAY Editor: I'm writing about Marie Zettler's story, "Fighting marijuana grow operations together" (9-27-07). There is one way and only one way to stop illegal grow-ops - re-legalize marijuana so it can be sold in licensed and regulated businesses. Marijuana grow operations exist because government marijuana prohibition policies make the easy-to-grow weed almost as valuable as pure gold. How many grow-ops grow tobacco - the tobacco that contains nicotine? Probably none. If Canada or the United States decided to criminalize tobacco, the situation would soon change. Prohibition doesn't work. It didn't work for the drug alcohol, and it's not working for marijuana and it never will. Kirk Muse, Mesa, AZ, U. S. A. - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake