Pubdate: Sun, 25 Apr 2004
Source: Quesnel Cariboo Observer (CN BC)
Copyright: 2004 Quesnel Cariboo Observer
Contact:  http://www.quesnelobserver.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1260
Author: Alan Randell

QUIT YOUR PICKING ON THE POT PEOPLE!

Re Police find bonus during Lark Ave. bust, Apr. 18

There is no more reason to punish users and sellers of certain drugs than
there was in the past to hang witches, lynch blacks or gas Jews - so why in
blazes did you describe this bust as if it were a normal and acceptable
occurrence and exclude any comment from those like me who feel that
prohibition is not the way to go?

Describing drug busts in this fashion makes you complicit in these evil
pogrom does it not?

There's little chance our drug prohibition law will be deposited in the
dustbin of history as it should until our media stops suppressing the
opinions of those who oppose this law.

Alan Randell 

Victoria
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