HOMEGROWN POT CONSPIRACY

Several studies have confirmed that marijuana and alcohol are economic
substitutes with cross-price elasticities, like butter and margarine. This
means that when marijuana use goes up, alcohol and other hard drug use goes
down.

Since the LCBO contributed nearly a billion dollars in revenue to
provincial coffers in 2002-2003, could the increasing demand for
marijuana-and the resulting potential for decreasing taxation revenue on
alcohol-be the real reason for Monte Kwinter's new effort to demonize
marijuana growers?

It's interesting that hydroponic gardeners have been growing tomatoes and
other legal plants indoors for years without a similar governmental response.

Tim Meehan
Director of Communications
NORML Canada