DRUG POLICY CALLED 'BAD JOKE'

OTTAWA --It's just as easy to get crack, cocaine, heroine and pot
inside federal prisons as it is on the outside, Reform charged
yesterday after calling zero-tolerance policies a "bad joke."

Reform MP Randy White said a national inmate survey obtained through
access laws shows 1,300 of 15,000 federal inmates used crack or
cocaine daily. Another 1,300 admitted using heroine and 5,400 use marijuana.

"The government doesn't even have the intestinal fortitude to fight it
on the inside," White said outside the House. "How on earth are we to
fight it on the outside?"

Solicitor General Lawrence MacAulay admitted in the Commons that drugs
are a major concern and that he intends to address the problem.