Pubdate: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 Source: Province, The (CN BC) Copyright: 2005 The Province Contact: http://www.canada.com/vancouver/theprovince/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/476 Author: Perry Bulwer Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada) 'IF POT WERE LEGAL, THESE OFFICERS WOULDN'T BE DEAD' It is politicians who have, through fear-mongering and propaganda about cannabis, put a relatively harmless substance on the prohibited-substance list since the 1930s. And it is politicians who continue to distort the facts about cannabis and who are responsible for the huge black market, which is the direct cause of tragedies like the killing of four RCMP officers. If pot were legal, these officers wouldn't be dead, because illegal grow-ops wouldn't have existed. Their deaths were entirely avoidable. It's as simple and as tragic as that. Perry Bulwer Vancouver - --- MAP posted-by: Beth