REPUTATION FOR REEFER MADDENS OFFICIALS

TORONTO, - Canada's growing reputation as a source of
marijuana has prompted Ontario officials to try and weed out the
problem, the Toronto Sun reported Thursday.

The Green Tide Summit will be held in Toronto March 4-5 to bring
together utility officials, realtors, police and politicians to work
out a plan of action, said Community Safety Minister Monte Kwinter.

"The fact that organized crime is behind these operations is of grave
concern to police and the citizens of Ontario," he said.

"These groups are well organized, well financed and ruthless in their
pursuit of profits, and we need to be just as relentless in our
efforts to put them out of business and send them to jail."