Pubdate: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 Source: Globe and Mail (Canada) Copyright: 2005, The Globe and Mail Company Contact: http://www.globeandmail.ca/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/168 Author: Mike Spindole Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada) Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/decrim.htm (Decrim/Legalization) COKE, POT AND CANADA From MIKE SPINDLOE, Vancouver -- Who cares whether Parti Quebecois leadership candidate Andre Boisclair used cocaine (PQ Front-Runner Deflects Questions About Cocaine Use -- Sept. 17)? It's time to stop demonizing and criminalizing drug users, just as it's time to stop demonizing and criminalizing certain drugs. Using drugs does not make you a bad person or a risk to society, but prohibition manufactures crime and, thus, criminals. It's time for us to stop the madness of the U.S.-led war on drugs. Canada has an opportunity to lead the way by not extraditing long-time pot activist Marc Emery to the U.S. and by legalizing marijuana. - --- MAP posted-by: Elizabeth Wehrman