Pubdate: 12 March 1999 Source: Edmonton Sun (Canada) Contact: http://www.canoe.ca/EdmontonSun/ Forum: http://www.canoe.ca/Chat/home.html Copyright: 1999, Canoe Limited Partnership. Author: Kathy Galbraith Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor; headline by hawk WITHOUT MARIJUANA THERE WOULD BE NO DRUG WAR YOUR EXCELLENT article revealed to Canada the criminalization of MORE THAN 600,000 Canadians for using a herb which has been shown to be more harmless than alcohol or tobacco, and which helps many sick people feel better. This is a huge waste of resources, and proves that Mike Gray, in his drug war expose book, Drug Crazy, was right: without marijuana offences, there would be no drug war at all, so the "drug" they are battling with might and main is really a medicinal herb that was not understood and got on somebody's hate list. Anyone who was ever charged with a marijuana offence should be immediately pardoned, released and apologized to the sooner the better. Kathy Galbraith Raymond (You're blowing smoke.) - --- MAP posted-by: Rich O'Grady