Pubdate: Sat, 16 Aug 2008
Source: Record, The (CN BC)
Copyright: 2008 Lower Mainland Publishing Group Inc.
Contact:  http://www.royalcityrecord.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1654
Author: Howard J. Wooldridge
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n770/a02.html

DRUG LAWS LEAD TO GUNS

Dear Editor:

As a retired Michigan police detective and education specialist with 
the Washington, D.C.-based Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, I 
must inform you that Mia Thomas completely misunderstands the nexus 
between guns and drugs (Drugs lead to gunplay, The Record, Aug. 9).

Street drug dealers need guns to settle their disputes since they 
cannot go to court.

It is drug prohibition, not the drugs themselves, that causes drug 
dealers to arm themselves. The clerks who sell Canada's two deadliest 
drugs, alcohol and tobacco, are not arming themselves because there is no need.

The need for guns and violence disappear when Canada becomes wise 
enough to end modern prohibition.

Howard J. Wooldridge,

Frederick, Maryland
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