Pubdate: Fri, 27 May 2011 Source: DrugSense Blog Website: http://drugsense.org/blog/ LETTER OF THE WEEK GRIEVING PARENTS: LEGALIZE ALL DRUGS Re: Heroin That Goes Far Beyond Junk, Joe O'Connor, May 13. As grieving parents of a son who died at age 19 in 1993 after ingesting some street heroin, may we offer our comments? When America prohibited alcohol, thousands were poisoned by adulterated market booze. When alcohol was legalized again, those incidents were drastically reduced. Today, our children are dying because of adulterated black market drugs. The carnage will end only when we come to our senses and allow users once again to purchase clean, cheap, quality-tested drugs at the corner store just as tobacco users now do. Let's finish the job we started when we ended alcohol prohibition, follow the principles enshrined in the Charter and legalize all drugs. Eleanor and Alan Randell, Victoria. Pubdate: Tue, 17 May 2011 Source: National Post (Canada) Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v11/n304/a02.html - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake