Pubdate: Tue, 27 May 2003 Source: Esquimalt News (CN BC) Copyright: 2003 Esquimalt News Contact: http://www.esquimaltnews.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1290 Author: Alan Randell Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n725/a07.html?1149 Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/decrim.htm (Decrim/Legalization) Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada) LOBBY GROUPS STRONGLY SUPPORT DECRIMINALIZING MARIJUANA Regarding the editorial "We know war on drugs isn't working" (Esquimalt News, May 14): Please explain how "hitting the dealers and providing counselling and treatment for the users" differs from the American approach? Come to think of it, how is it any different to the approach used for decades, here and in America? The point is moot anyway because it will never work. Prohibition will never work. Never has. Never will. Legalizing all drugs is the only way to reduce the harm and heartbreak of drugs. Alan Randell - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom