Pubdate: Sat, 13 Jul 2002
Source: Abbotsford News (CN BC)
Copyright: 2002 Hacker Press Ltd.
Contact:  http://www.abbynews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1155
Author: Wayne Phillips
Note: This appeared in the same issue as an LTE entitled "Marijuana is 
Very, Very Bad..."

. . . OR VERY INNOCENT, DEPENDING ON ONE'S VIEW

Editor, The News:

Re: Derrick Dick's letter of June 27 ('Cops stake high ground,' Viewpoint):

What a crock!

Cannabis prohibition is based on the fabrications of zero tolerance; it 
goes downhill from there. Marijuana grow operators and dealers are a 
product of that prohibition.

About three weeks ago, Dr. Patrick Smith of the Centre for Addiction and 
Mental Health told the Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs that: `If 
we discovered three drugs today and they were alcohol, tobacco and 
marijuana, there isn't an expert in the country who would recommend that 
marijuana be the one that is banned based on individual and societal harm.'

Cannabis prohibition is the most diabolical bit of systemic discrimination 
that Canada has ever adopted.

Moral high ground it is not!

Wayne Phillips

Hamilton, Ont. 
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