Pubdate: Wed, 02 Nov 2011
Source: 100 Mile House Free Press (CN BC)
Contact:  2011 100 Mile House Free Press
Website: http://www.100milefreepress.net/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2143
Author: William Perry

PAY OFF HST WITH POT 

Prohibition doesn't work; in fact, it has cost more than it was worth.

In the last 40 years, we've spent significant amounts of money to 
control the growing and sale of marijuana.  It costs a lot to arrest, 
prosecute, and send them to prison.

We need to simply legalize the drug, regulate it and tax it. 

Such a move would reduce the number of police officers assigned 
for enforcement, eliminate a huge number of prison beds allocated for 
drug offenders and add dollars to the public coffers.

Legalizing marijuana would be one way to pay off the $2.2-billion
shortfall caused by scrapping the Harmonized Sales Tax. 

William Perry

Victoria 
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