Pubdate: Tue, 30 Jul 2013
Source: Nanaimo Daily News (CN BC)
Copyright: 2013 Nanaimo Daily News
Contact:  http://www.canada.com/nanaimodailynews/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1608
Author: Dave Lane
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v13/n362/a06.html
Page: A6

CURRENT DRUG POLICIES NEED TO BE EXAMINED

Re: 'We owe it to drug addicts to be judgmental' (Opinion, July 26) What 
this opinion piece fails to acknowledge is that the biggest problem is 
that drugs are still sold by black market dealers with no age or quality 
controls.

Most people who overdose do so because of unknown purity of the drugs
they consume. I do not know what Al Arsenault does not understand
about personal responsibility, or why he thinks the government needs
to control what people put into their own bodies, but the policies he
supports are killing people and making the world a less desirable
place for those of us that don't use drugs.

If drugs were legal and cheap, again, users would either figure out
that they need medical help or they would kill themselves.

Either way it solves the problem for the rest of us and the police can
go back to serving and protecting instead of arresting and convicting
as many as possible.

Dave Lane Santa Cruz Calif.
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