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  The Taxman's Lost Cash Crop
Posted by FoM on August 04, 2001 at 14:46:56 PT
By Diane Francis, National Post 
Source: National Post 

cannabisnews.com Marijuana has emerged as a multi-billion-dollar industry in Canada, largely because the United States maintains a vigorous opposition to pot at the same time Canadian authorities turn a blind eye to its cultivation and possession. In the first of a three-part series, National Post columnist Diane Francis reports that these paradoxical positions have created an unparalleled black-market opportunity in Canada, every bit as lucrative as Prohibition afforded Canadian bootleggers in the 1920s.

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Comment #5 posted by Spic_420 on February 21, 2002 at 11:02:14 PT:

It'll never stop
The industry will never stop until it is leaglized so all the potheads or just regular smokes will not give in to no ones bull****

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Comment #4 posted by Sudaca on August 06, 2001 at 08:57:05 PT
opportunity
"coupled with the official zero-tolerance approach in the United States has created an unparalleled black-market opportunity in Canada"

this is the same sort of thing that happens everywheer else; and that's all the zero tolerance policies will ever achieve.

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Comment #3 posted by ksp on August 05, 2001 at 06:36:09 PT
not tourism ?
"That makes growing pot the biggest industry in British Columbia."

wow, imagine that...large appetite south of the border, eh ?

congrats to mark emery...hee hee.

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Comment #2 posted by freedom fighter on August 04, 2001 at 16:31:03 PT
Man, when will the U.S
will realize that it will never stop until we leaglize it?

ff



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Comment #1 posted by Toker00 on August 04, 2001 at 16:02:14 PT
I KNEW I shoulda fled to Canada, but NNNAAAAWW...
Instead of an Honorable Discharge, I coulda had a MERCEDES!!! Sure makes the risk SEEM worth it, huh?

Peace. Realize, then Legalize.



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