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 - --- MAP posted-by: Jo-D