Pubdate: Wed, 10 Aug 2005
Source: Vancouver Courier (CN BC)
Copyright: 2005 Vancouver Courier
Contact:  http://www.vancourier.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/474
Author: Jimmy Wheeler
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n1291/a07.html

U.S. GOVERNMENT STUCK IN BACK END

To the editor:

When will my government pull their heads out of their rear ends and
stop funding the DEA ("No apologies from DEA," Aug. 7)?

I can't think of a bigger waste of taxpayer dollars than Ronald
Reagan's war on drugs and the DEA's personal war on marijuana. How
many millions of my tax dollars will be wasted trying to prosecute Mr.
Emery?

And it will never happen!

Ottawa is not likely to send one of its taxpaying citizens south of
the border to face a bully big brother and his mandatory minimum
draconian laws. And we wonder where the anti-American sentiment is
coming from.

I have met Mr. Emery and know him to be kind and generous. His
charitable cash donations to wrongly prosecuted medical marijuana
patients here in Washington State are well known.

Jimmy Wheeler,

Tacoma, WA
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