Pubdate: Wed, 08 Feb 2006
Source: Houston Today (CN BC)
Copyright: 2006 Houston Today
Contact:  http://www.houston-today.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/4080
Author: Robert Sharpe
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Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n118/a07.html

IGNORE THE REEFER MADNESS

Editor:

Re: Whatever happened to the pot debate? Thomas Barker, Barking at 
the Big Dog, Houston Today, Jan. 25.

Rather than continue to subsidize organized crime, Canadian 
policymakers should ignore the reefer madness hysteria of the U.S. 
government and instead to look their own Senate for guidance.

In the words of Senator Pierre Claude Nolin: "Scientific evidence 
overwhelmingly indicates that cannabis is substantially less harmful 
than alcohol and should be treated not as a criminal issue but as a 
social and public health issue."

Robert Sharpe

Washington, D.C.
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