Pubdate: Tue, 15 Mar 2005
Source: Vancouver Sun (CN BC)
Copyright: 2005 The Vancouver Sun
Contact:  http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/477
Author: James D. Fanning
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/decrim.htm (Decrim/Legalization)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/prison.htm (Incarceration)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?199 (Mandatory Minimum Sentencing)

THE JURY IS STILL OUT ON LEGALIZING POT

The following letters were received in response to The Sun's four 
editorials about marijuana last week.

Thank you for a most intelligent and reasoned series of articles about the 
history and future of cannabis prohibition. It is seldom that one sees 
newspaper articles of this sort that do not echo the frightening mandatory 
minimum sentencing, greater enforcement budget and liberal judiciary song 
that is chanted by our neighbours who run the gulag to the south.

When Canadians who choose to ingest cannabis have the right to do in the 
privacy of their own homes, and the right to grow their own supply, without 
fear of doors being broken down, fines and possible incarceration, then we 
can turn our attention to the problem of reducing the empowerment of 
triads, gangs and for-profit grow-ops that is engendered by prohibition.

James D. Fanning

Head of Jeddore, N.S. 
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