Pubdate: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 Source: Pipe Dream (NY Edu) Copyright: 2008sPipe Dream Contact: http://www.bupipedream.com/pipeline_web/contact.php Website: http://www.bupipedream.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/4584 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n113/a07.html Author: Stan White Note: Titled by Newshawk TAXING ILLEGAL CANNABIS IS A MONEYMAKER To the Editor: The war on drugs and the relatively safe God-given plant cannabis (kaneh-bosm/marijuana) is an enormous financial gravy train for prohibitionists, the prison industry, unions and government. (Taxing illegal drugs is a crime itself, Jan. 28.) Taxing illegal substances is proof; ignorant and gravely harmful to the rest of society, but what a moneymaker. Truthfully, Stan White, Dilon, Colo. - --- MAP posted-by: Derek