Pubdate: Wed, 14 Sep 2005
Source: Vancouver Sun (CN BC)
Copyright: 2005 The Vancouver Sun
Contact:  http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/477
Author: Jodie Geiesz-Ramsay
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada)

SIMPLE SOLUTION TO DANGERS OF MARIJUANA GROWING

Re: Kids from pot houses need help: social workers, Sept. 13

Here's a simple solution. Tax and regulate marijuana, produce it in 
licensed locations and greenhouses, and no one will be forced to secretly 
grow their cannabis in indoor gardens.

We're looking at the basement gin bathtub scenario from the liquor 
prohibition days. When illegal, it has to be hidden, and no safety 
regulations can be enforced.

If made available in the way alcohol and tobacco are, we will no longer see 
"grow-op homes" and the dangers associated with them -- which are, 
ultimately, results of prohibition.

Jodie Geiesz-Ramsay

Cannabis Culture magazine

Vancouver 
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