SEED SELLER AND SENATOR STIR THE POT IN THE DEBATE ABOUT ILLEGAL DRUGS

I'm tired of hearing from pro-drug/legalization activists about the
mythical "war on drugs." There's no such thing in Canada -- or even in
the U.S.

Just keep repeating a myth or a lie long enough and it becomes a
truth. The only real "war on drugs" is in Singapore, Sweden and a few
other places, and it has been totally successful.

The drug anarchy in the Downtown Eastside proves there's no war going
on; no one dares hurt the feelings of addicts and dealers.

We don't do tough love; we give candies to a sugar-addicted diabetic,
hoping he'll kick the addiction voluntarily. That's why we dare not
copy Sweden, but choose the non-solution Insite as a solution.

If China had not cracked down on opium in the past, there'd now be
thousands of opium dens and Insites like fast-food franchises -- and
hundreds of Downtown Eastsides over there.

Legalization? Criminals say: Bring it on (please); it'd make our jobs
so much easier.

D. L. Inge

Vancouver