| In a fascinating and disturbing article
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| | choice", the Hells Angels and other crime
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| about the international "war on drugs"
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| | syndicates are moving into the business
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| being waged by the U.S. and other western
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| | and are getting stronger throughout the
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| nations, I learned that the production,
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| | area. According to the drug enforcement
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| distribution and export of "B.C. Bud", a
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| | branch of the Royal Canadian Mounted
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| dangerously strong strain of marijuana,
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| | Police, Canada's version of the FBI, the
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| accounts for 6 percent of the gross
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| | crime syndicates are gaining control of
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| domestic product of Canada's province of
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| | distribution and export, and U.S. and
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| British Columbia. It employs more
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| | Canadian border authorities are
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| Canadians than the province's traditional
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| | increasingly hard-pressed to deal with
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| industries of mining and logging
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| | it. As if that wasn't bad enough, the
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| combined. My impression of British
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| | syndicates have introduced a new level of
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| Columbia from a few decades ago is of a
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| | violence into the admittedly illegal, but
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| quiet, conservative people who would have
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| | formerly mostly peaceful B.C. pot-growing
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| gasped in disbelief if such a future had
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| | industry.
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| been suggested. They seemed the kind of
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| | More than half the population of the
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| folks who, instead of agitating for the
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| | huge, largely rural and forested province
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| legalization of marijuana as many now do,
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| | lives in Greater Vancouver, the
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| would instead have been demanding more
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| | third-largest city in Canada. Drug rehab
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| public funds for successful drug rehab
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| | authorities there are fighting a
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| programs.
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| | rear-guard action against the growing
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| Most of the B.C. Bud, or "Beezer" as it's
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| | drug culture, trying new ideas and
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| sometimes known, originates in indoor
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| | treatment modalities and expanding the
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| hydroponic "farms" along the province's
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| | number of drug rehab centers. There now
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| border with the U. S., with significant
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| | are 1,038 treatment centers in the
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| amounts added by outdoor growers
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| | province to serve a population of just
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| elsewhere in the province. Tons of the
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| | over 4 million. About 160 centers are for
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| drug make their way into the U.S. across
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| | young people, but only for detox and
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| the notoriously porous borders, north
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| | short-term treatment. A recent innovation
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| into Alaska, and south into the states of
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| | slated for early 2008 is a long-term drug
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| Washington, Oregon, and California. It is
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| | rehab center specifically for youths. For
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| increasingly found in other states as
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| | British Columbia's young people - among
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| well, and wherever it surfaces, the
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| | the hardest-hit by the infamous B.C. Bud
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| incidence of people being brought into
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| | epidemic, which leads many kids into
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| hospital emergency rooms, or winding up
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| | cocaine and heroin addictions - the
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| in drug rehab for treatment, continue to
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| | longer-term treatment means a far greater
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| make the news. The drug is dangerously
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| | chance for a full life through a
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| too strong for many people.
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| | successful drug rehab program.
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| While the majority of the province's B.C.
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| | Rod is a freelance writer that
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| Bud criminals are passive hippie types
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| | contributes articles on health.
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| for whom marijuana is a "lifestyle
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