Pubdate: Tue, 04 Feb 2003
Source: Langley Advance (CN BC)
Copyright: 2003 Lower Mainland Publishing Group Inc.
Contact:  http://www.langleyadvance.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1248
Author: Chris Kirby
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n059/a02.html

DRUGS: PROHIBITION DOESN'T WORK

Dear Editor,

Troy Landreville is absolutely right: it still won't be legal [It still 
won't be legal, Jan. 3 Comment, Langley Advance News], which means drug 
gangs will still make billions, the quality of any drug will still be 
suspect, and drug dealers will still have an incentive to predate on the 
youngest of our citizens.

I can't speak for Mr. Landerville's experiences in Amsterdam, though I can 
speak for my own. I have never been robbed, assaulted, or threatened in 
Amsterdam. Choosing to see the Red Light district for myself, I went there 
at night and never felt uncomfortable or scared anywhere.

Possibly Mr. Landerville has taken to heart all the prohibitionist 
propaganda he appears to espouse.

Prohibition has never and will never work.

Considering Canada's stance the first time America tried this, you'd expect 
that the Canadians would feel differently than the U.S. this time.

I guess it just goes to show, seemingly intelligent people like Mr. 
Landerville can be duped by parlour tricks and slight-of-hand rhetoric by 
American Drug Warriors.

Chris Kirby

Richardson, Texas, USA
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