Pubdate: Tue, 19 Aug 2008
Source: Edmonton Sun (CN AB)
Copyright: 2008 Canoe Limited Partnership.
Contact:  http://www.edmontonsun.com
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/135
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n795/a04.html
Author: Keith Fagin
Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor, headline by newshawk.

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IGNORES SCIENCE

Good to see the EPS knows full well not to waste time on peaceful
people consuming cannabis. It's a much safer drug than alcohol, with
the worst side-effect being the munchies. Cannabis should've been
legalized when The Le Dain Commission Report was released in 1972. The
Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs in 2002 reached the same
conclusion. Instead our federal government ignores science in favour
of disproven political beliefs and insists on increasing the harms
caused by a law that should not have been on the books for 35 years,
via mandatory prison time for one pot plant.

KEITH FAGIN

(You're right, it's politically shameful and burdens police
unnecessarily. )
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