Pubdate: Wed, 21 Dec 2011
Source: National Post (Canada)
Copyright: 2011 Canwest Publishing Inc.
Contact: http://drugsense.org/url/wEtbT4yU
Website: http://www.nationalpost.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/286
Author: Bruce Korol
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v11/n722/a11.html?1284

KEEP THE WAR ON DRUGS GOING

Re: We Can't Afford A War On Weed, Larry Campbell, Philip Owen and Sam
Sullivan, Dec. 19.

If the war on drugs has been such a costly failure and the negative 
consequences of prohibition so evident why stop at pot? We should be 
decriminalizing all drugs. It's time for the former Vancouver mayors 
and everyone else to recognize that this shouldn't be about giving the 
government another commodity (marijuana) to tightly control under a 
"strict public health framework" with sin taxes and regulation.

The war on drugs and the corresponding solution from the ex-mayors are 
both wars on freedom and the right to self-ownership. Individuals 
should be able to ingest any substance they want without any 
government interference - including everyone's favourite drug, alcohol. 

Bruce Korol

Calgary
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