Pubdate: Tue, 07 Sep 2004
Source: Province, The (CN BC)
Copyright: 2004 The Province
Contact:  http://www.canada.com/vancouver/theprovince/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/476
Author: John Gordon
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/topics/kine

HERE'S WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT DA KINE STORE SELLING MARIJUANA

I've had the great privilege to write about the Da Kine store for
Cannabis Culture magazine. I found Carol and her staff to be good
people. They are not going to try and convince you to try crystal meth
or crack or rave drugs -- or even alcohol or cigarettes. They prefer
to see people making the natural, healthy, intelligent choice of cannabis.

The system of delivery for cannabis set up by Health Canada has been a
miserable failure, offering a cumbersome bureaucracy and paperwork
that exchanges medical users' and growers' civil rights for the
liberty of growing or processing marijuana.

The only system that works for cities with hard-drug addicts is
separating cannabis from the black market and providing safe places to
buy it and imbibe.

Cannabis has shown itself to be much less a gateway drug and more an
exit drug, whereby hard-core addicts use it to come off -- and stay
off -- the hard drugs.

John Gordon,

Vancouver 
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