Pubdate: Fri, 16 Aug 2002
Source: Lindsay This Week (CN ON)
Copyright: 2002 Lindsay This Week
Contact:  http://www.lindsaythisweek.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2213
Contact:  Alan and Eleanor Randell
Note: Parenthetical remark by newspaper editors

CHANGE YOUR STYLE

To the editor:

Re: Police find drugs, KLTW Aug. 9

I'm begging you, please change the way you report these drug busts.

Please include, not only the comments of those arrested, but those of 
people like me who feel we are plain NUTS to continue with drug prohibition 
when it has clearly failed on all fronts and is totally without logic in 
any event. If we prohibit drugs because they are harmful, why don't we 
prohibit alcohol and tobacco?

Our drug laws are nothing less than a cynical, manipulative campaign to 
distract our attention from government screw-ups in other areas and to 
provide a measure of vicarious pleasure to the majority by persecuting a 
totally innocent minority.

What is your editorial position on our drug laws? Why not add a notation to 
each of these stories summarizing it?

Alan and Eleanor Randell, Victoria, British Columbia

(We report police activity. That includes charging those in possession of 
drugs.)
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