Pubdate: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 Source: Vancouver Sun (CN BC) Copyright: 2007 The Vancouver Sun Contact: http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/477 Author: Greg Harms TOO MUCH CRIME, NOT ENOUGH PUNISHMENT The rata-tat-tat of the roaring prohibition 1920s is here anew. We again have an industry made artificially profitable by way of our own drug prohibition policies. The criminal element proliferates in a massive and lawless tax-free lucre zone. Until we take the profit out of the hands of the criminals, we will never defeat this social problem. Instead, like lemmings, we follow the proven false ideology of the "war on drugs." The human capacity to repeat the mistakes of history is truly astonishing. Greg Harms Vancouver - --- MAP posted-by: Beth Wehrman