Pubdate: Mon, 25 Nov 2002
Source: Province, The (CN BC)
Copyright: 2002 The Province
Contact:  http://www.canada.com/vancouver/theprovince/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/476
Authors: Jim Hanson,  Ruth Hanson

Here's what you said about: U.S. drug czar's speech here

Who invited American drug czar John Walters to Vancouver to speak about 
drug policies? And what a bunch of half-truths he told.

His claim that 60 per cent of Americans requiring drug treatment are 
"addicted" to marijuana is rubbish. Maybe he should read the 
well-researched conclusions of the Canadian Senate report.

He has the gall to criticize the hecklers in the audience as being 
ill-informed, yet in the U.S. each year there are 800,000 arrests for 
marijuana possession. What a terrible statistic. This in a supposedly 
"free" nation.

Yankee go home and deal with your own problems. God bless Canada, a free 
and sovereign nation.

Jim and Ruth Hanson,

Burnaby
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