Pubdate: Mon, 16 Mar 2009
Source: National Post (Canada)
Copyright: 2009 Canwest Publishing Inc.
Contact:  http://www.nationalpost.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/286
Author: David Malmo-Levine
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n303/a03.html

'JUST SAY NO' DOESN'T WORK

Re: A War You Can Stop, David Frum, March 14.

It is the policy of criminalizing distribution, not the act of
drinking (or smoking or sniffing) that leads to violence. It is a
shame that there are still some intelligent people who attempt to
confuse the issue by offering solutions that go against everything we
know about human nature.

David Frum would have as much success fighting AIDS with a plea for
sexual abstinence as he would fighting gang violence through drug
abstinence or attempting to put Al Capone out of business with a plea
for alcohol abstinence. Let's end the War On Drugs now and see what
effect that has on the violence.

David Malmo-Levine

Vancouver
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