Subject: CUBA LEGALIZES MARIJUANA!
From: [email-masked] (Murple)
Date: 1 Apr 1995 18:04:43 -0500
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,alt.drugs.pot,alt.hemp

HAVANA (AP) - In an afternoon session today, the Cuban legislature passed 
a law legalizing the growth, sale, and possession of marijuana. The new 
law allows unlimited use of marijuana in the Communist nation, and 
establishes government run marijuana farming cooperatives. According to 
Castro spokesman Javier Bienfumar, the new law is hoped to stimulate the 
failing Cuban economy. Economic planners are hoping that the legalization 
of marijuana will attract American tourists and dollars. Officials are also 
hoping that by encouraging marijuana use, they can keep the general 
population too intoxicated to notice the lack of items such as food, 
medicine, and gasoline. When asked for comments, spokesmen for the White 
House said only, "We always said Communism was a pipe dream."