Pubdate: Mon, 18 Jun 2007
Source: Ottawa Sun (CN ON)
Copyright: 2007 Canoe Limited Partnership
Contact:  http://www.ottawasun.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/329
Author: Russell Barth
Note: Title by MAP. Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor.

PROHIBITION IS THE SOIL IN WHICH ROTTEN BUSHES GROW

Re "'This is all I can do'" (June 17): If we gave out free drugs at
the clinics (clean pharmaceuticals, not street crack), street kids
wouldn't have to whore for money.

Sure, we'd still have addicts, but they would be slaves to the clinic,
not slaves to the dealers and johns.

Thank prohibition of drugs and prostitution for these problems.
Prohibition is the soil in which these rotten bushes grow, and we are
reaping as we have sown.

Russell Barth

Ottawa

(Many would argue making street kids slaves to the clinic doesn't
solve their root problems) 
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MAP posted-by: Richard Lake