Pubdate: Wed, 23 Mar 2005
Source: Sooke News Mirror (CN BC)
Copyright: 2005 Sooke News Mirror
Contact:  http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2142
Author: Alan Randell
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n448/a14.html?40374

IS DRUG USE DRUG ABUSE

Please, I'm begging you, please make these drug stories ("Pot bust by the 
book - police," March 9, page 12) more objective and thus less akin to 
pro-government propaganda by including the comments of those like me who 
oppose our unjust and shameful drug prohibition law.

Alternatively, you could simply append at the end of these items a 
statement like, "Many feel that drug prohibition (1) is illogical because 
other harmful drugs are allowed, (2) is an abuse of the right of free 
adults to ingest any drug, (3) causes more harm because of adulterated 
drugs and crime than the drugs themselves, or (4) is ineffective and a 
waste of law enforcement resources because human beings will always want 
drugs."

Who am I kidding? You won't make these changes because formerly independent 
media are now submerged into corporate chains where focus on advertising 
revenues means zero tolerance for controversy.

Alan Randell,

Victoria
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