Pubdate: Tue, 25 Apr 2006
Source: Winnipeg Free Press (CN MB)
Copyright: 2006 Winnipeg Free Press
Contact:  http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/502
Author: Colin Walker
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/decrim.htm (Decrim/Legalization)

RESTORE RIGHT TO CANNABIS

Re: Pot benefits organized crime (April 22).

Letter-writer Susan Van Dreser should do well to remember all the 
lives lost to insure our little freedom. The obligation of citizens 
is to oppose unjust and hypocritical laws like cannabis prohibition 
that are the cause of the bikers selling pot in the first place. The 
demand is being filled by entrepreneurs who have a totally untaxable 
product. There were no organized crime syndicates before alcohol 
prohibition but the business model is obviously still successful for 
currently banned recreational drugs. There would be no bikers 
involved at all if the people's natural rights to cannabis 
agriculture were restored, nor would terrorists have access to large 
sums of cash were all drugs properly regulated.

Instead, we are forced to endure a narco-police state in order to 
attempt to restrict cannabis (and other drugs) because some people 
believe they have the right to choose for others how they can live. 
Others with the rallying cry "what about the children?" work 
tirelessly to insure that kids have access to drugs via the 
uncontrolled black market.

The cannabis laws were born in racism and have perpetuated all the 
worst ills of drug abuse with zero control for the state. It's time 
to wake up and smell the pot and restore freedom. Legalize and 
regulate cannabis.

COLIN WALKER

New Westminster, B.C.
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