Pubdate: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 Source: Calgary Sun, The (CN AB) Copyright: 2001 The Calgary Sun Contact: 2615 12 Street N.E., Calgary, Alberta T2E 7W9 Fax: (403) 250-4180 Website: http://www.canoe.ca/OttawaSun/home.html Forum: http://www.canoe.ca/Chat/home.html Author: Peter Webster Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor; headline by newshawk ADDICTED TO MYTHS It would appear that newspapers are more addicted to perpetuating myths about drugs than telling the truth. "Pot use sky-high," Dec. 27.) The worst of these myths is that the prohibition of drugs has any social benefit at all, for actually it exacerbates the very problems it is supposedly designed to combat. But don't take it from me, please do your research before you parrot the "findings" of prohibition-oriented institutions. Peter Webster Int. Journal of Drug Policy (It must be nice to be right when everybody else is wrong.) - --- MAP posted-by: Josh Sutcliffe