Pubdate: Mon, 12 May 2003
Source: Toronto Sun (CN ON)
Copyright: 2003, Canoe Limited Partnership.
Contact:  http://www.canoe.com/NewsStand/TorontoSun/home.html
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/457
Author: Stephen Young
Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor, headline by newshawk

EXPOSE THE ABSURDITY OF THE POT WAR

RE "JOBS may go to pot" (May 9): U.S. drug czar John Walters says if Canada 
decriminalizes the personal use of marijuana, then we're really going to 
tighten our border. How can anyone take him seriously? Walters and his 
fellow crusaders spend billions in taxpayer dollars every year, allegedly 
to stamp out marijuana. But check around any American city and you'll find 
no shortage of the plant and its adherents. A change in Canadian policy 
will have no impact on the U.S. cannabis market. The major effect will be 
to further expose the absurdity of the pot war when Canadian society not 
only fails to collapse, but actually improves after cannabis reform. I 
suspect that's the real reason for Walters' blustery overreaction.

Stephen Young

Schaumburg, Ill.

(We'll see) 
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