Pubdate: Tue, 09 Aug 2005
Source: Edmonton Sun (CN AB)
Copyright: 2005, Canoe Limited Partnership.
Contact:  http://www.canoe.com/NewsStand/EdmontonSun/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/135
Author: Bruce Mirken
Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor, headline by newshawk
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n1253/a07.html

VOICE OF SANITY

RE: "CANADA vs. U.S. in rope-a-dope," by Mindelle Jacobs, Aug
6.

Bravo to Jacobs for being a voice of sanity in the discussion over the
attempt by the U.S. government to extradite Marc Emery. We can no more
"eradicate" marijuana than we could eradicate drinking during
America's disastrous experiment with Prohibition in the 1920s. By
taxing and regulating marijuana, we can exert reasonable controls and
stop wasting police resources on the pointless persecution of
responsible citizens whose social relaxant of choice is a joint rather
than a martini.

Bruce Mirken

(We're shaken, not stirred.) 
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