Pubdate: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 Source: Kamloops Daily News (CN BC) Copyright: 2013 Kamloops Daily News Contact: http://www.kamloopsnews.ca/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/679 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v13/n584/a07.html Cited: Sensible BC: http://www.sensiblebc.ca Author: Stan White POT PROHIBITION AN IGNORANT FARCE The tone of your editorial, Petition All Smoked Out (The Daily News, Dec. 7) is disturbing and disappointing. Sensible B.C. isn't attempting to change some trivial law. Cannabis (marijuana) prohibition, historically, didn't originate from a process of democracy in action, but rather greed, racism and fraud. It perpetuates because people in positions of trust use lies, half-truths and propaganda within a government-subsidized system of discrimination. The act of caging humans for using a relatively safe God-given plant is vile and ignorant. The day will arrive when the injustice is over and people look back and wonder how cannabis prohibition ever started and why such a farce lasted so long. STAN WHITE Dillon, Colo - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom