Pubdate: Wed, 20 Dec 2000
Source: Winnipeg Sun (CN MB)
Copyright: 2000 Canoe Limited Partnership
Contact:  http://www.canoe.ca/WinnipegSun/home.html
Author: Matthew M. Elrod
Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor

UNTOUCHABLES WON'T WORK

The bloody gang war waging in Winnipeg over the cocaine trade is more akin 
to Chicago during alcohol prohibition than Tombstone, Ariz. (letters, Dec. 19)

Enlisting more Untouchables to chase the Capones is not the solution. 
Fighting the drug trade simply makes drugs more valuable and dealers more 
ruthless.

We fought the law of economics and the law won.  Time to stop the failed 
war on drugs.

Matthew M. Elrod, Victoria, B.C.

(Legalize this trade? Don't hold your breath waiting for that to happen.)
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