Pubdate: Mon, 13 Mar 2017
Source: Toronto Star (CN ON)
Copyright: 2017 The Toronto Star
Contact:  http://www.thestar.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/456
Author: D. Scott Barclay
Page: A10

RAIDS ON POT SHOPS NOT THE ANSWER

Re Police raid Cannabis Culture shops across Canada following arrest
of 'Prince' and 'Princess of Pot,' March 9 We need 21st-century
Untouchables.

In the face of the unprecedented epidemic of opioid and other
hard-drug deaths, lethal drugs pushed on street corners in full view
and a record number of stabbings in Toronto, police instead choose the
easy busts: cannabis shops.

Why? Because it's safe. In fact, they won't touch organized crime
gangs for two reasons. It's dangerous and they are not directed to.
It's no secret that criminal organizations threaten anyone who tries
to bring them down. And who is willing to put his family in danger?

For that reason we need a special task force of single men and women
without children from other regions of Canada whose identities are
protected. Their mandate: to go after and shut down the lethal
hard-drug and gun trade Canada is awash in; to reverse the deluge of
addictions, deaths, stabbings and killings.

Where are our leaders?

D. Scott Barclay, Georgetown
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