Pubdate: Thu,  9 Aug 2001
Source: Ottawa Citizen (CN ON)
Copyright: 2001 The Ottawa Citizen
Contact:  http://www.ottawacitizen.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/326
Author:  Kirk Muse
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1417/a09.html
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/decrim.htm (Decrim/Legalization)

WAR ON DRUGS

ReRock open to legal marijuana, Aug. 3.

The best of luck to the Canadian government in legalizing marijuana. You 
can expect a great deal of resistance from the United States because many 
people, industries and institutions have a vested interest in perpetuating 
our war on drugs. The successful lifting of the prohibition on marijuana 
will not look good to those interests.

As to what message this would have for children, it should be that it is 
not the proper role of a free country's government to protect its citizens 
from themselves. Such a government does not jail its citizens for eating 
unhealthy foods. Nor should it jail its citizens for putting other 
potentially unhealthy substances into their bodies.

Kirk Muse,

Vancouver, Washington
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