JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR PROHIBITION

The only way to regulate a drug-free zone is to create additional
zones where drugs are allowed. It's called regulation and it works
with alcohol.

Upon doing so the vast majority of users will have no interest in the
drug-free zones. The rest can then be coerced into the drug-use zones
with a minimum of effort.

Without the drug-use zones, drug-free zones are just another word for
prohibition. And if prohibition worked, I would not be replying to
this (newspaper) column.

It's been tried and has been a failure for almost a century in
Canada.

Just changing the name is not going to make prohibition
work.

Chuck Beyer,

Port Alberni, BC.