Pubdate: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 Source: Montreal Gazette (CN QU) Copyright: 2009 Canwest Publishing Inc. Contact: http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/letters.html Website: http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/274 Author: Roch de Bellefeuille NO HOPE FOR DOPE Re: "Mohawks, gangs, and tobacco" (Gazette, March 28). Our government is effectively relinquishing control of the cigarette trade to smugglers and organized crime, depriving the taxpaying public of billions of dollars that would have been allocated for the care and betterment of society. This should silence all talk of plans to legalize marijuana and have it become a legal, taxable good. If bandits can muscle in on government territory with impunity, it would be insane to assume government would be able to wrestle drugs away from them. Roch de Bellefeuille Pierrefonds - --- MAP posted-by: Larry Seguin