Pubdate: Tue, 17 Mar 2009
Source: Sundre Round Up (CN AB)
Copyright: 2009 Sundre Round Up Publishing Ltd.
Contact:  http://www.sundreroundup.ca/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/4049
Author: Robert Sharpe
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n293/a08.html

JUST SAY NO TO AMERICAN INQUISITION, SAYS READER

Re: Criminal profits should be fair games (March 10, P. 4):

The U.S. civil asset forfeiture model is certainly lucrative. Police 
can confiscate cars, cash and homes without bothering to charge 
owners with a crime. Vague allegations of drug trafficking don't 
justify turning protectors of the peace into financial predators.

Police searches on public transit, drug-sniffing dogs in schools, and 
random drug testing have led to a loss of civil liberties in America, 
while failing miserably at preventing drug use. A majority of 
European Union countries have decriminalized marijuana. Despite 
marijuana prohibition and perhaps because of forbidden fruit appeal, 
lifetime use of marijuana is higher in the U.S. than any European country.

Canada's southern neighbor now has the highest incarceration rate in 
the world, in large part due to the intergenerational culture war 
otherwise known as the war on some drugs. Canada should Just Say No 
to the American Inquisition.

Robert Sharpe
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