Pubdate: Thu, 21 Nov 2002
Source: Ottawa Citizen (CN ON)
Copyright: 2002 The Ottawa Citizen
Contact:  http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/326
Author: Kirk Muse

U.S. IS GOOD EXAMPLE OF HOW NOT TO WAGE WAR ON DRUGS

Re: MPs demand a drug czar, Nov. 19.

I disagree that Canada has no one to measure the success of your war on 
drugs. You have the United States, whose drug policy has been a total disaster.

No other nation has spent more of its resources fighting drug abuse nor 
arrested more of its citizens for drug law violations than the United 
States. Yet no other nation has been less successful in solving its 
drug-abuse problems.

My advice to Canadians: Carefully observe U.S. drug policy, then do the 
opposite. Don't follow us -- we're lost.

Kirk Muse,

Mesa, Arizona
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