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Found this article in my hometown newspaper under Opinion section:

WHAT THE HECK by John Van Heck

U.S. deals with Canadian pot head

You just gotta love the Americans. If you don't, then I probably love them enough to cover both of us.

This past week, the U.S. twisted our Canadian authority's arms hard enough to get one of Canada's largest internet pot seed peddlers extradited to the U.S. on drug trafficking charges.

Mark Emery has been openly selling his marijuana seeds into the U.S. and across Canada for years. He has boasted about the fact on the Internet and claims his sales hit the $3 million mark last year.

He is just one of many Canadians who snub their nose at the Canadian law and sell to whomever they want without the fear of prosecution.

Even though he and all the others are breaking the law in our country, our law enforcers and legal system have decided to not pursue the matter.

I guess they feel they can pick and choose which laws they will uphold and which ones get the back seat.

Forunately for all of us, the U.S. sees things a little differently.

If our liberal pansy Canadian government wants to let the pot heads run wild within our borders, that's OK with them but they clearly are prepared to defend their laws and their citizens from the Canadian seed peddlers. If we Canadians are too spineless to stand up against this illegal substance, then the Americans are prepared to clean our house for us.

Mark Emery could face decades in prison in the U.S. if found guilty.

Why am I not crying? Well as Baretta once said, "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time."

It is a crime on both sides of the border and if you are stupid enough to think that the U.S. is on the same legalize-marijuana bandwagon as Canada, then you have smoked one too many.

The U.S. has clearly had enough of Canada's lacking attitudes towards drugs and other traditionally common moral and ethical issues. Sharing their border with the New Amsterdam of the north was never part of the plan -- and it is truly their border. They have the power and the ability with all to severely limit access or shut it completely.

Would limited access to the U.S. hurt their feelings? I don't think so. What is it that they could not live without? Our garbage? Our Canadian Beef?

I can't wait to hear what hyper liberal defense the lawyers for Mark Emery will dream up. I am sure that they will point out that Mark's pot seeds have never hurt anyone. That there are millions of medicinal pot users that live more meaningful lives because of his great public service. That he knowingly has never destroyed a single life or hooked a kid on weed. That somehow the years of our law enforcement's neglect has given him and all other seed peddlers a free ticket to deal with immunity-- kinda like squatter's rights.

The guy probably should get a Nobel Prize.

The sad facts, that him and all the other proponents of legalizing pot seem to miss, are that their actions cause damage in many more families and kids then their fried little minds want to admit to.

If you still think that Mark Emery's pot seed business is harmless, then go talk to the frontline workers that deal with our kids each day.

Ask a high school teacher about the stellar outlook they have for the pot head in their classroom or ask a cop how likely a teenaged pot head will become a full time customer of his in adulthood.

They will tell you from firsthand experience how harmless it really is.

It doesn't matter what you think anyways-- the U.S. has come to the rescue.

God Bless American and all its outdated and old fashioned beliefs.

John Van Heck is a lifelong resident and an active member of the Wallaceburg community