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Concise Comments On Some Current Topics

Unclear on the concept

Federal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson is correct: Marijuana is
valuable enough to be used as a kind of currency, traded across
borders for harder drugs. But what makes a weed you could grow in
your garden so valuable? Largely the simple fact that it's illegal.

So Nicholson's newly-proposed solution to this problem, making
marijuana more illegal (so to speak) by increasing sentences for
selling and growing the stuff, is just absurd.

Learning from the masters

Speaking of product value: Police say the Hells Angels hoarded
marijuana, creating an artificial shortage to raise prices. We're
guessing they learned this trick from farm-product marketing boards,
which limit supply of basic healthy foods for exactly the same purpose.