Pubdate: Thu, 14 May 2009 Source: Kamloops Daily News (CN BC) Copyright: 2009 Kamloops Daily News Contact: http://www.kamloopsnews.ca/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/679 Author: Penny Powers TORY DRUG POLICIES SHAMEFUL Dear Cathy McLeod: In response to your survey, the Conservative Government is NOT on the right track with its justice legislation. You as a nurse should be ashamed of yourself for supporting this regressive approach to drug trafficking and drug use. If you did not learn in nursing school that: 1) punishment only makes things worse 2) harm reduction really works 3) rehabilitation is the only way to change behaviour 4) prison sentences create hardened criminals then you weren't paying attention. The Conservative Party aims to create a "punishment-based" society like the U.S. here in Canada. Your policies makes gated communities and private security officers the norm. This is not how we behave as Canadians. Penny Powers Kamloops - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake