Vancouver’s civic booze-pushers need to lay off pot protestors

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Vancouver taxpayers regularly subsidize public booze parties that cost millions, yet city officials are trying to rouse anger against pot protestors for the meager expense of their legalization rallies.

In Vancouver, the annual 4/20 rally has a peak crowd of about 25,000 and total attendance closer to 35,000. It has been attacked by city officials for supposedly costing the city $93,000.

Let’s ignore for now that this figure is somehow more than the cost of the entire Pride Parade, ($67,000), an event that is far more massive and blocks off many more streets than 4/20, but whatever.

The fact is that 4/20 is a cheap event when compared to the beer gardens and booze-fests our city regularly subsidizes.

Heck, let’s not even mention the city-sponsored official Stanley Cup party, where drunken hooligans did $3.7 million in property damage, and cost taxpayers another$2 million in new policing costs, plus ...

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