Pubdate: Tue, 15 May 2012
Source: Now, The (Surrey, CN BC)
Copyright: 2012 Colin Walker
Contact:  http://www.thenownewspaper.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1462
Author: Colin Walker
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v12/n269/a04.html

WE ALREADY HAVE PROHIBITION-ERA GANGSTERISM OVER POT

The Editor,

Re: "Better ideas on how to deal with marijuana," the Now letters, May 8.

Mr. Brian Marlatt must be living under a white rock if he thinks many
people in Canada will smuggle cannabis to the USA when so much is now
being produced in California.

We also already have the "prohibition-era gangsterism" he claims would
be worsened by legalization, cartels in Mexico are murdering many
people every year and the dope is still illegal there.

Marijuana is a plant with many uses but it seems conservatives simply
hate it and anything to do with it. Just more freedom-denying
baffle-gab from some prejudiced person. The only answer is to regulate
it like alcohol and let people make their own informed decisions.

Colin Walker,

New Westminster
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