Pubdate: Sat, 17 Sep 2005
Source: Saturday Okanagan,  The (CN BC)
Copyright: 2005 Saturday Okanagan
Contact:  http://www.kelownadailycourier.ca/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1206
Author: George Kosinski
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada)

NO POLICE STATE

In a recent story, Cpl. Carey Chernoff, head of the RCMP drug unit in
Kelowna, opines that "There always seems to be something tying our
hands, and we have to find a way around it."

That something is called the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and I
don't believe it's appropriate for police officers to be speaking
publicly about getting around it, though they, I suspect, do it often
enough in private.

Chernoff should check out the Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
website and educate himself as to what his peers who don't belong to
his church are saying, I'm sure I'm not alone in indicating that I'd
rather see every Canadian adult smoking marijuana every day than to
live in a police state society.

George Kosinski, Gibsons
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