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OT – MedMJ "crusader" sells out, joins dark side.

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In <news:dMCdnXsx_pnoySPcRVn-tg@gbronline.com>, Rob Duncan said: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> "Michael" <muirh…@haidagwaii.net> wrote in message > news:326u1iF3ihoe1U1@individual.net… >> Anyone remember the famous Toronto lawyer Alan Young, the crusading >> lawyer who said the following? >> "We will be successful in invalidating the marijuana >> possession offence and invalidating the horrible regulatory >> regime by year’s end." >>  - Osgoode Law Professor Alan Young, April, 2002 >> Well, the times, they are a-changin’.   Young is now representing a >> bunch of industrialists and financiers whose aim is to make fistfuls of >> money by making sure that home cultivation of medical cannabis is banned, >> so >> that they can be the nation’s only legitimate suppliers.   Health Canada >> is helping them to do this. >> This plan would fail if legalization proceeded, and would *probably* >> fail in the present climate in which med-users can grow their own… and >> it would fail because once the black market is eliminated by >> legalization, the price of good-quality cannabis would *plummet*, since >> no one >> would be running the risk of arrest and imprisonment to cultivate it. >> Remember those stories of old, about how the best-connected railroad >> owners (and later, oil companies) were given all sorts of land, tax >> and legislative advantages by government and the rest were destroyed by >> the unfair competition? >> So, here’s Alan Young… not so much a narc mole, it would seem (of >> which he’s been accused by some people recently), as merely a very >> well-fed >> parasite working on behalf of some of the 21st century’s robber >> railroad barons. >> ((U)) >>  M > Hes none of that Michael.  He was a collaborater from the onset.  I > told you that.  I told that Med MJ activist, who used to post here all the > time, (What happened to him?)  that Canadas MJ movement was riddled > with collaborators.  Seagrams, Big Pharm, the over-all alcohol industry, > the govt, etc., all have plans within plans.  Its big business Michael… > It costs far less to meddle now, rather than trying to deal with the > impact of MJ legalization later on. > It was the plan the whole time.  He didnt switch sides… he was > never on that side.

I’m pretty sure you’re quite right about his original intent… but he’s now shown – by going the full 180

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