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  B.C.'s Marijuana Industry Adds Billions
Posted by FoM on July 14, 2001 at 09:41:17 PT
By Chad Skelton, Vancouver Sun 
Source: Vancouver Sun 

cannabis If you're looking for evidence of B.C.'s booming marijuana industry, you don't have to look far. Flip to the "hydroponic equipment" section in your Yellow Pages and you'll find listings that fill 2 1/2 pages. Some companies have even placed half-page, full-colour ads, advertising multiple outlets and seven-day-a-week "superstores."

(One, in what appears to be either a typographical error or a Freudian slip, boasts that it offers "Export advice.") In Toronto, there are listings for only 13 hydroponic stores. In Vancouver there are 32.

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Comment #5 posted by OMG on July 15, 2001 at 15:21:44 PT
dumb da dumb dumb
When are these people going to learn that by keeping it illegal they only drive costs up making this a number one business. It shouldnt be the number one export, but thats what happens when the gov continues to keep OUR plants illegal.

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Comment #4 posted by mayan on July 14, 2001 at 17:57:39 PT
might as well just....
Tax!Tax!Regulate!
Use the funds to Educate!

I remember chanting that at HarvestFest in Madison back in the late eighties. 30,000 people marching past the sidewalk cafes....old timers wondering what in the hell was going on!???
The situation is clearly out of control concerning the current policy of prohibition. Will common sense ever prevail?

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Comment #3 posted by J.R. Bob Dobbs on July 14, 2001 at 17:01:03 PT
The Canadian Barry McCaffrey
>>But, as Staff Sergeant Chuck Doucette of the RCMP's
drug awareness section puts it: "There aren't that many
people growing tomatoes." <<

Ahh, Chuck Doucette. Check the URL below for a
20m informative Pot-TV show with the occasional clip of
Chuck Doucette, and not in the best light either... what a
twit. How much do they pay him for gems like the
above?

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Comment #2 posted by Rizz420 on July 14, 2001 at 12:12:05 PT
bull
your all full of shit, its not even in my yellow pages

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Comment #1 posted by mememe on July 14, 2001 at 10:08:10 PT
Like Columbia?
How can officials compare the pot trade to the coke trade? Two seperate and distinct entities. I think it is wonderful
that people have figured out ways to supplement and better their incomes. The damn government sure isn't going to help you unless your a spade! The Canadian Gov. should go with the times and enjoy some of the profits of an economy that has been surpressed for too long.

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