Pubdate: Thu, 25 Mar 2010
Source: Edmonton Sun (CN AB)
Copyright: 2010 Canoe Limited Partnership.
Contact:  http://www.edmontonsun.com
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/135
Author: Gary Schofield
Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor, headline by newshawk.

WAR ON ILLICIT DRUGS IS LOST

If the report of the Urban Health Research Initiative is correct, the 
war on illicit drugs is lost. Making the sale and use of illicit 
drugs illegal has had an unfortunate and entirely predictable 
consequence. Apparently, governments learned nothing from Prohibition 
in the first quarter of the 20th century. The prohibition of alcohol 
in the U.S. led to the rise of organized crime that still flourishes. 
The same could be said for illicit drugs in Canada and the U.S. 
Perhaps if these drugs were regulated in the same way as alcohol and 
tobacco, the huge profits funneled into organized crime would be cut off.

Gary Schofield

(Not "perhaps." This futile war does more harm than good.)
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