Pubdate: Sat, 4 Jul 2009
Source: Los Angeles Times (CA)
Copyright: 2009 Los Angeles Times
Contact: http://drugsense.org/url/bc7El3Yo
Website: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/248
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n666/a02.html
Author: Joel Furman

COCAINE IN CANADA

Science dictates that if you squeeze one part of a half-filled 
balloon, the air moves to another part of the balloon. But it doesn't go away.

That is the phenomenon we see at play here, as the war in Mexico 
directly impacts the drug trade in Canada.

Without dissipating demand -- through a combination of drug treatment 
and education programs and possibly a liberalization of anti-drug 
laws -- the untreated addiction, corruption, greed and, as we see 
here, violence are physically incapable of doing anything more than 
merely shifting location.

Joel Furman

Los Angeles
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