Pubdate: Fri, 30 Apr 2010
Source: Peninsula News Review (CN BC)
Copyright: 2010 Black Press
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1373
Author: Jo Stanley

ACCESSIBLE DRUGS COULD REDUCE CRIME

Re: Drug addicts don't need pity (Letters, April 21)

Perhaps letter writer Roel Hurkens and his fellow prohibitionists 
could consider this: if drug addicts could get their pain killers, 
either prescription or non-prescription, at the drug store or liquor 
store like the rest of the population, they might not commit crimes 
worth $350,000 a year.

They might even be able to work if they weren't spending all their 
time begging, stealing or selling themselves to feed their habits.

Jo Stanley

Victoria
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