Pubdate: Tue, 05 Nov 2002
Source: Ottawa Sun (CN ON)
Copyright: 2002, Canoe Limited Partnership
Contact:  http://www.fyiottawa.com/ottsun.shtml
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/329
Author:    Kirk Muse

RE: MINISTER CULTIVATES TOUGHER POT-GROWER PENALTIES

RE "MINISTER cultivates tougher pot-grower penalties," (Nov. 2): The tough 
on drug producers and sellers has been tried here in the United States. The 
net result is that the former "Land of Liberty" has been transformed into 
the most incarcerated country in history.

With fewer than 5% of the world's population, the U. S. has more than 25% 
of the world's prisoners. Thanks primarily to our counterproductive war on 
certain (politically selected, non-corporate) drugs. (Please note that 
certain recreational drugs like Viagra have been excluded for obviously 
political reasons.)

My advice to Canada: Carefully observe U. S. drug policy -- then do the 
opposite. Don't follow us -- we're lost.

Kirk Muse

Mesa, AZ

(So pot fans keep telling us) 
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