CANADA'S JUSTICE MINISTER ADVOCATES REEFER MADNESS DrugSense FOCUS Alert #401 - Thursday, 23 April 2009 Today Canadian newspapers are reporting that "Canada's justice minister says people who sell or grow marijuana belong in jail because pot is used as a "currency" to bring harder drugs into the country. "This lubricates the business and that makes me nervous," Rob Nicholson told the Commons justice committee yesterday as he faced tough questions about a controversial bill to impose automatic prison sentences for drug crimes, including growing as little as one pot plant. "Marijuana is the currency that is used to bring other more serious drugs into the country," the minister said." Links to some of the newspaper articles are http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09.n454.a09.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09.n455.a01.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09.n455.a02.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09.n455.a04.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09.n455.a05.html and http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09.n455.a06.html News about marijuana from Canada may always be accessed at http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm Letter to the editor writers from the United States should note that Canadian newspapers print your letters frequently. For all the information about the bill, C-15, to include the text and major speeches in Parliament see http://drugsense.org/url/hwWsxW6O Canadians who which to contact your Member of Parliament about this bill by using your Postal Code to obtain contact information see http://drugsense.org/url/nMP9kfsJ PLEASE SEND US A COPY OF YOUR LETTER Please post copies of your letters to the sent letter list ( ) if you are subscribed. Subscribing to the Sent LTE list will help you to review other sent LTEs and perhaps come up with new ideas or approaches. To subscribe to the Sent LTE mailing list see http://www.mapinc.org/lists/index.htm#form Suggestions for writing LTEs are at our Media Activism Center http://www.mapinc.org/resource/#guides Prepared by: Richard Lake, Senior Editor www.mapinc.org =.

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