Pubdate: Sun, 20 Mar 2005
Source: Toronto Sun (CN ON)
Copyright: 2005, Canoe Limited Partnership.
Contact:  http://www.canoe.com/NewsStand/TorontoSun/home.html
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/457
Author: Alan Randell
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/decrim.htm (Decrim/Legalization)
Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor.
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n434/a05.html?22404

DON'T SET OUR LAWS BY U.S. POLICY

RE "POT policy is smoke and mirrors" (March 13): I see Lorrie Goldstein is 
closely following the Toronto Sun corporate line that it is pointless to 
legalize the drug until the U.S. does because criminals will still be 
involved in the export of the weed. Isn't it possible that if we legalize 
marijuana, some of those erstwhile criminals will convert their illicit 
business into a hugely profitable paragon of corporate governance as Samuel 
Bronfman did with his Distillers Corporation when alcohol was legal here in 
Canada but illegal in the U.S.? In any event, since when do we allow 
America a veto power over domestic social policy?

Alan Randell

Victoria, B.C.

(We don't, but why encourage crime on this side of the border?) 
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MAP posted-by: Beth