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.) - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake