Pubdate: Wed, 27 May 2009 Source: NOW Magazine (CN ON) Copyright: 2009 NOW Communications Inc. Contact: http://www.nowtoronto.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/282 Author: Bill Harris Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n542/a08.html TOKIN' GESTURE I agree with your 10 reasons why we need to decriminalize drugs. Here in the U.S., Madam Secretary Hillary Clinton need not travel to Tibet to find a minority subculture stripped of human rights. If we are all about spreading liberty abroad, then why mix the message at home? Each bust piles on new costs. The policy on the number-one cash crop is eradication. But money to frustrate enforcement grows on trees. Freedom of speech presupposes freedom of thought. How and when did government usurp this power to coerce conformity? Bill Harris Austin, Texas - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom