Pubdate: Mon, 07 May 2001
Source: Toronto Sun (CN ON)
Section: Editorial/Opinion; Pg. 14; Letters To The Editor
Copyright: 2001, Canoe Limited Partnership
Contact:  http://www.canoe.ca/TorontoSun/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/457
Author: Robert Sharpe
Note:  Comment in parentheses at end is comment of Toronto Sun editor
Note: Headline by MAP Editor

COMPELLING POT SMOKERS TO RESORT TO HEROIN

Premier Mike Harris has failed to consider that driving drug use 
underground only compounds the problem. The plan to coerce welfare 
recipients into drug treatment will have the perverse effect of forcing 
addicts to suffer in silence. The drug tests used to enforce this misguided 
policy could very well compel pot smokers to resort to heroin and crack to 
avoid detection. Marijuana is the only drug that stays in the body long 
enough to make urinalysis a deterrent. Harder drugs are water-soluble and 
exit the human body within 48 hours or less.

Robert Sharpe
Program Officer, Lindesmith Center/ Drug Policy Foundation
Washington, DC

(There's an argument we hadn't heard before)
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