Pubdate: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 Source: Edmonton Sun (CN AB) Copyright: 2008 Canoe Limited Partnership. Contact: http://www.edmontonsun.com Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/135 Author: Russell Barth Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n1029/a05.html Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor, headline by newshawk END THIS COUNTERPRODUCTIVE PROGRAM Re: Glen Klose's Nov. 12 letter supporting the drug war: you defend a program which subsidizes organized crime, wastes tax dollars, endangers the community, deprives the public of billions in potential revenue and restricts medicinal use. It's also keeps cops busy, lawyers rich, courts clogged and jails full. Worst of all, prohibition deprives the public the basic right to choose what they can do with their own bodies based on junk science, propaganda and superstition. We are lobbying to end this wildly counterproductive program and you are trying to stop us. Just which side of law and order are you on? Russell Barth (He enforces what he believes is right. It's noble, even if wrong.) - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom