DRUGS, CRIME AND DEATH

Re: Justice Minister Responds, letter to the editor, Nov. 24.

To his credit, the Justice Minister did not say that stronger
punishments for drug dealers would reduce the overall number of drug
dealers. That was refreshing. As a Michigan police officer, I learned
that every drug dealer arrested, shot or killed was replaced within
days. What will Rob Nicholson do with the new drug dealers who replace
the ones arrested? And the ones who replace those, ad infinitum?

Eventually Canada will look like America: wall-to-wall prisons. And
drugs will still be
readily available.

Officer Howard J. Wooldridge (ret'd), education specialist, Law
Enforcement Against Prohibition, Washington.