Pubdate: Sat, 18 Feb 2012
Source: Nanaimo News Bulletin (CN BC)
Copyright: 2012, BC Newspaper Group
Contact:  http://www.nanaimobulletin.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/948
Author: Wayne Phillips
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v12/n126/a12.html

MARIJUANA PROHIBITION A FEDERAL INTRUSION

To the Editor,

Re: Prohibition of pot simply bad policy, Letters, Feb. 13.

Stan White is essentially correct.

The fact, nevertheless, remains; the prohibition of pot is well 
beyond being bad policy. It is social engineering of national import 
which has unwittingly been allowed to go terribly awry and needs to 
be fixed immediately.

If it were otherwise, the prohibition of pot would be seen as little 
more than a haphazard attempt at masking a collusion between 
organized crime and the political elite wherein politicians, 
enforcement and media are little more than public relations vehicles 
for either an elected criminal elite or that segment (of public 
officials) which have influence and have already been bought.

Summing up, the prohibition of pot, like the national anti-drug 
strategy, is a federal intrusion on what should rightly be a 
provincial harm reduction matter.

Wayne Phillips

Hamilton, Ont.
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