Pubdate: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 Source: Cobourg Daily Star (CN ON) Copyright: 2008 Northumberland Publishers Contact: http://www.northumberlandtoday.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2227 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n906/a02.html Author: Russell Barth GANGSTERS MAKE MONEY FROM DRUGS To the Editor: Re: Local drug trade growing dramatically, police board told, Sept, 29, 2008. Where do kids learn to take drugs? Maybe it has something to do with the fact t we advertise booze and erection medication during The Simpsons and hockey games. Police and government know that, like with Al Capone and his alcohol business in the last century, the answer to this problem is to regulate drugs. But that will never happen because the gangsters who make so much money from the drug trade have made it clear that any attempt to regulate their lucrative and tax-free industry will be met with extreme force. So, basically, our cops and government are in tacit cahoots with gangsters because they are too afraid to take them on. They would rather keep arresting your kids than actually address the root of the problem and take on the gangs. Russell Barth /Nepean Patients Against Ignorance and Discrimination on Cannabis (PAIDOC) www.paidoc.org - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake