Pubdate: Fri, 30 May 2003
Source: Winnipeg Sun (CN MB)
Copyright: 2003 Canoe Limited Partnership
Contact:  http://www.fyiwinnipeg.com/winsun.shtml
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/503
Author: Pat Rogers
Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor.
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada)

NEW DRUG LAWS WILL FAIL

The proposed drug-law reforms are designed to fail.

In fact, they are designed to exacerbate the proliferation of harder street 
drugs.

The problem is not the cannabis consumer.

This halfway measure of decriminalizing the consumer addresses none of the 
fundamental problems or root causes of drug use and abuse.

Canadians should be asking their politicians and police why they stubbornly 
continue to support a counter productive "prohibition" that causes more 
crime, proliferates the disease of addiction and even helps to support 
terrorism against the free world.

Pat Rogers

Calgary

(Canadians aren't ready to legalize marijuana.)
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