Pubdate: Tue, 11 Sep 2007
Source: Lethbridge Herald (CN AB)
Copyright: 2007 The Lethbridge Herald
Contact:  http://www.lethbridgeherald.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/239
Author: Keith Fagin, Calgary

FEDS IGNORE OWN DRUG EXPERTS

Editor:
Re: Tamara Cartwright's letter to the editor, Sept. 6, Herald, which 
states: "I am a strong advocate for legalization!"

Good for you, Tamara! Science does agree with you 100 per cent. So 
does common sense.

Thirty-five years ago in 1972, the Le Dain commission and in 2002 the 
special Senate committee published their drug studies that the 
Canadian government asked and paid for no less. Both 
government-funded drug studies stated stop prohibition of cannabis 
due to the huge increase in the harms caused by prohibition.

People still living in the 1930 reefer madness era really need to see 
both these drug studies paid for by our own Canadian government, the 
same government that continues to ignore what they have been told to 
do by their scientific drug studies.

KEITH FAGIN
Calgary 
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