Pubdate: Fri, 30 Apr 2010
Source: Columbia Valley Pioneer, The (CN BC)
Copyright: 2010 The Columbia Valley Pioneer
Contact: http://www.columbiavalleypioneer.com/contact.html#letter
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/4207
Page: 6
Author: Stan White
Referrenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10/n316/a10.html?1092

POLICE AND THEIR UNIONS LOBBY LEGISTATORS TO PROHIBIT MARIJUANA

A.W. Shier, in his letter Sentences In Pot Cases Should Be More 
Severe of April 23, 2010, is mistaken when asserting the RC MP, 
"enforce laws, they don't make them or have much influence in developing them."

In fact, concerning cannabis (marijuana) laws, law enforcement 
officers and their unions are the largest group in North America 
which invests time and money to perpetuate cannabis prohibition.

They used to say, "if you don't like the laws, change them" and, "we 
don't make the laws, we just enforce them," but not anymore. 
Something to do with job security.

A sane or moral reason to cage responsible adults for using the 
relatively safe, God-given plant cannabis doesn't exist. Cannabis 
prohibition amounts to legal discrimination. Period.

Stan White
Dillon, Coloado
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