Pubdate: Tue, 26 May 2009
Source: Abbotsford Times (CN BC)
Copyright: 2009 The Abbotsford Times
Contact:  http://www.abbotsfordtimes.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1009
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n537/a02.html
Author: Russell Barth

PARENTS, POLITICIANS NEED TO TAKE MORE BLAME FOR YOUTH DRUG USE

EDITOR, THE TIMES:

RE: Parents, Talk To Your Children, May 19, Our View

Parents and politicians refuse to admit that it is their fault that 
kids are involved with drugs and gangs. Adults set up this system of 
drug prohibition, which subsidizes gangsters and their lifestyles.

Adults keep electing the same prohibitionist hacks who insist that 
more prohibition is the best way to solve the problems caused by 
prohibition. Adults spend money on enforcement, courts and cages, 
instead of spending money on things that actually work, like health 
care, education, housing, social programs like art music and sports 
for kids, and job creation. You are all getting what you deserve. 
(From a federally licensed medical marijuana user and a member of 
Patients Against Ignorance and Discrimination on Cannabis.)

Russell Barth

Nepean, Ont.
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