STOP THE WAR ON ILLEGAL DRUGS

Editor:

Thank you for exposing the American war on drugs in your Wednesday, October
3 story: Schools Review DARE, in the Quesnel Cariboo Observer.

But don't stop there. Society needs to review the the entire American war
on drugs.

The same group of individuals that support DARE, also support another
harmful practice that compromises the compassionate need for education.

That is the American Policy of withholding government education grant money
to students found guilty of even a benign substance as cannabis, yet allow
rapist, murderers, burglars and violent offenders those privileges.

Further, it is a display of ignorance from Presidents, when they are
directly responsible for this bias toward injustice, in our supposedly free
country.

Is America finally going to become aware of the implications of a War on
drugs? People are racking their brains to figure out why minorities are
grotesquely caged disproportionately to the population, in virtually every
nook and cranny of our country. That the laws banning cannabis, and other
drugs initially was brought about by racist and deceitful laws, is on
record and a most embarrassing part of American history.

It will be the minorities of America that will disproportionately bear the
cost of this evil prohibitionist politician policy.

That leaders of today lord it over their own constituents, becoming their
own benefactors, instead of doing things for the benefit of those they
serve, comes as an evil of no surprise.

I challenge the ignorant to wake up.

America, it is in God we trust, not prohibitionist politicians. Canada
would do well to act intelligently while considering educational needs.
Help end the war, not escalate it.

Stan White
Dillon, CO
USA