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Re: 'Police seize $3.5 million in marijuana,' News, June 5.

Lost amid the barrage of grow-ops, raids remains the fact that prohibition
vitalizes the black market because it enriches organized crime.

It is incomprehensible why any government -- who could take effective
measures to remove the profit factor from grow operations by either
reclassifying cannabis or removing it from the Controled Drug and
Substances Act entirely -- doesn't.

Some would have you believe that if the government moves in the direction
of a liberal cannabis initiative, it will send out a message that it
condones its use.

It will not; government will simply be recognizing there are more effective
means it is prepared to initiate to better cope with the reality of
cannabis usage in contemporary society.

Wayne Phillips