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Letter: Canada minor marijuana supplier

Eugene Oscapella

Toronto Star

Wednesday 05 Apr 2006

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Grow-op arrests cropping up less.

Your article quotes Det. Rob Muscat of the Peel Region police morality
bureau as saying, "We're the No. 1 source of marijuana into the U.S."
This is utter nonsense.

The available evidence, including reports from the Auditor-General of
Canada, the RCMP, the U.S. and the United Nations, have all found just
the opposite — that Canada is, in fact, only a minor supplier of
cannabis to the U.S. The most recent report produced by Canadian and
American government agencies concluded that Canadian-produced marijuana
accounts for only about 2 per cent of overall U.S. marijuana seizures at
its borders. As a November 2002 RCMP report noted , "The United States
is basically its own main source of marijuana."

Eugene Oscapella, Lecturer in Drug Policy, Department of Criminology,
University of Ottawa and Co-founder, Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy

 

 

 

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