Pubdate: Fri, 28 Nov 2008
Source: DrugSense Weekly (DSW)
Website: http://www.drugsense.org

LETTER OF THE WEEK

LEGALIZE AND REGULATE ALL DRUGS

By Alison Myrden

At the end of Mindelle Jacobs's Nov. 14 column, she asks 
rhetorically, "Why have a (marijuana) law at all?" Good question. Why 
IS the use of cannabis prohibited? More than 10 million people have 
smoked cannabis in the last year in Canada. Not ONE died. Ill people 
use it as medicine, factories make clothes and rope out of it, people 
eat the seeds, the flower and the leaves in cooking and baking and 
the stock in tea.

I DO have a problem when anyone serves time in jail or loses their 
home due to any drug. Drugs are a health issue and should be treated 
as such.  As a retired law enforcement officer and a legal cannabis 
patient, I say the answers are right here if you look.

Legalize and regulate all drugs and keep them out of the hands of the 
criminal element and away from our children.  We at LEAP (Law 
Enforcement Against Prohibition) are a group of retired and 
present-day law enforcement officers looking for more answers. Give 
us a chance. What we are doing now is not working.

Alison Myrden

Pubdate: Sun, 23 Nov 2008

Source: Edmonton Sun (CN AB)

Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n1031/a07.html
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