Pubdate: Sat, 10 Jan 2015
Source: Chico Enterprise-Record (CA)
Copyright: 2015 Chico Enterprise-Record
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Author: Jay Bergstrom

NO MORE ILLEGAL MARIJUANA, NO MORE LABS BLOWING UP

Another week, another honey oil "lab" explosion.

If we were all 100 years old, we would remember the exploding stills 
during our experiment with prohibited alcohol. They went away, but 
not as a result of vigorous enforcement of the prohibition. They went 
away because it became legal to get alcohol at a store, produced and 
distributed by a regulated industry.

We still have problems with alcohol, but turf wars, exploding stills, 
and drunk waterfowl are not amongst them. If repealing prohibition 
reduced problems with alcohol, it just might do the trick for cannabis.

- - Jay Bergstrom, Forest Ranch
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MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom