LEGALIZE POT, EX-SENATOR SAYS

Four RCMP officers cut down while investigating a marijuana grow
operation might not have died if Canada had legalized pot, a former
Alberta Liberal leader said Thursday.

Nick Taylor, a former senator and one-time leader of the Liberals in
the province where the tragedy occurred, said the incident proves once
again that prohibition, whether for alcohol, tobacco or marijuana,
doesn't work.

"The way we've done it now is marijuana has become the exclusive
prerogative of the criminal element because there's such fantastic
profit in it," Taylor said.