Further to "Alcohol more harmful than marijuana" (Feb. 8 Sooke News Mirror).

Part of LEAP Canada's stated mission is "to lessen the incidence of death, disease, crime and addiction by ultimately ending drug prohibition."

In the 2011 report, estimating the number and cost of impairment, MADD estimates that between 1999 and 2008, alcohol-impaired car crashes cost the country about $20 billion, or some $600 per capita. To British Columbia, this would be an annual cost of about $3 billion.

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