POT CAFE PUTS UP TOKIN' RESISTANCE

VANCOUVER -- The pot business was smoking yesterday as hundreds dropped in
to visit Da Kine cafe, raided last week for openly selling marijuana to
customers. Owner Carol Gwilt said people were showing up to offer their
support after Thursday's well-publicized police bust.

"People are coming out in droves to support us," said Gwilt, who spent
Thursday night in jail and is charged with benefiting from the proceeds of
crime.

Police -- some wearing balaclavas -- seized $63,000 in cash and 9.5 kg of
marijuana from the shop Thursday.

Seven staff members were charged.

The casually-dressed, youngish crowd came in yesterday as much for the
shop's notoriety as for the opportunity to buy high-grade marijuana for $10
a gram.

Down the street from Da Kine, the pungent aroma of burning weed could be
smelled as a threesome rolled joints and toked up.

A police squad car was parked a block away while another pulled into a side
street, out of view.

"We know who the undercover officers are," said Lorne McLeod, a member of
Da Kine's management team.