Pubdate: Tue, 24 Feb 2009
Source: Vancouver Sun (CN BC)
Copyright: 2009 The Vancouver Sun
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/477
Author: Ralph Givens
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n205/a01.html

MARIJUANA BOYCOTT WOULDN'T WORK

Ed Watson may be a "veteran British Columbia journalist," but his
credentials don't support the notion of a boycott putting the drug
gangs out of business. For one thing, few marijuana users will
cooperate. A far more effective way of ending drug gangs is simply to
repeal the drug laws that make their drug dealing so incredibly
profitable. It's worth remembering that Eliot Ness never put the
bootleggers out of business. Repeal and a regulated market for adult
alcohol use did that in short order. Keep in mind that we haven't had
a bombing or a shootout over beer routes since 1933.

Ralph Givens

Daly City, Calif.
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