POT SHOP POPULAR

VANCOUVER -- The pot business was smoking yesterday as hundreds of
Vancouverites dropped in to visit Da Kine cafe, raided last week for openly
selling marijuana to customers. "People are coming out in droves to support
us," said owner Carol 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.

Yesterday's casually dressed, youngish crowd was lured as much by the
shop's notoriety as by 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.