Pubdate: Tue, 23 May 2000
Source: Toronto Sun (CN ON)
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Author: R.L. Smith
Note: Title by newshawk; parenthetical remarks by Sun editor.

STARK RAVING MAD Editorial

RE "STARK raving mad" (Editorial, May 20): My position has always been that
people will find a way to bend their minds one way or another. Whenever I've
been in an argument with an anti-drug zealot, we have been ingesting
alcohol - so? What's the difference?

In the far north, where pills and pot are not readily available, youths
sniff glue and gasoline. So where there's a will, there's a way. We can
chase pot growers, pill-makers etc. from here to eternity and there will
always be a product available. Spend money on education, not trying to chop
every pot plant or flush every pill - you'll never win this war that way!

R.L. Smith

London, Ont.

(We'll never win until we decide it really is a war)
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