Source:  Toronto Star Letters to the Editor
Contact:  11 Jun 1997

Neil and Philip Seeman's argument against ending prohibition 
quotes from a Columbia University study stating "casual drug 
use is dangerous, not simply because it can lead to 
addiction or accidental overdoses, but because it is
harmful per se, producing worker accidents, highway 
fatalities and children born with physical handicaps."

Putting aside the facts that marijuana, for instance, has no 
known lethal dose and been proven to be nonaddictive, why 
not apply the same logic to Canada's number one casual drug 
of choice, alcohol?  History shows us what a great success 
prohibition on that substance was.

 Timothy J. Meehan