Pubdate: Thu, 11 Oct 2007
Source: Montreal Gazette (CN QU)
Copyright: 2007 The Gazette, a division of Southam Inc.
Contact:  http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/274
Author: Gilles Girard

REGULATE DRUGS, DON'T BAN THEM

Re: "Drug plan is good but it has flaws" (Editorial, Oct. 9).

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a 
different result.

The only way you can control an activity is to legalize it. Should 
these activities be legal, money generated by these services could be 
used to prevent abuses. The criminal bodies attached to these 
activities would vanish. I can think of a better use of our legal 
system and our law enforcement officers than drug offences. Can you?

Drugs and prostitution will not disappear, so let's face reality. 
Let's do with drugs and prostitution what we are doing with 
cigarettes and alcohol.

Gilles Girard

Montreal
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