Pubdate: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 Source: Anchorage Press (AK) Copyright: 2007 Anchorage Publishing, Inc. Contact: http://www.anchoragepress.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3078 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n691/a04.html Author: Jay Bergstrom GREAT POT IS LIKE GREAT WINE Great pot is like great wine What a wonderful application of physics wrapped in grey matter - The Alaska Stable Isotope Facility in the Water and Environmental Research Center at UAF can and surely has furthered understanding of our Earth. Kudos to the folks on the hill overlooking Fairbanks, whom I've admired for years, and whose midweek speakers I enjoyed as an undergrad, once upon a fall semester. A fraudulent claim to be helping society is being made by UAF Police Officer Stephen Goetz. Furtherance of marijuana's prohibition is a non-rewarding end. Given our experience with alcohol prohibition, that cannabis prohibition is folly only follows; and drug prohibition in general is a colossal continuing failure, on the same magnitude as slavery. It is bad science to participate in any pogrom against American citizens. Goetz senses that the demand for cannabis "is greater than publicly suspected." "Why do you have anybody living anywhere buying dope from somewhere else?" asks Harvey Goehring, DEA Assistant Special Agent for Alaska. Dumbasses, why the fuck not! Great strains are like great wines; terroir is the word and even though there may be great strains grown locally, the only regulation in the market comes from direct comparisons. The names of the counties here in Northern California are legend, a la Matanuska - Mendocino, Humboldt, Sonoma, all have risen to bring respect from the connoisseur (which nearly all of the smokers seem to consider themselves). In closing, I find the reference to "dope" by Goehring to be an offensive propagandistic slur. Great, well written article. Thanks for the topical insights. JAY BERGSTROM Forest Ranch, California - --- MAP posted-by: Steve Heath