ONLY WAY TO DEAL WITH DRUG PROBLEM: DECRIMINALIZE

Congratulations to the Fraser Institute's Patrick Basham and Tracey
Nicholls for the Your View article on the so-called drug war. The war is
unwinnable because it ignores two basic and inescapable principles, namely:
a) As long as there is a demand there will be a supply, and; b) Prohibition
does not work. The only way to deal with the drug problem is to
decriminalize it and regulate it like alcohol. That is, you regulate the
production, distribution and consumption. Heaven knows, the government
might even be able to get some tax out of it.

M.J. McGrath VANCOUVER

This article showed us all, once again, the gap that exists between those
of us who live in the real world, and those who live in an artificial world
where money and power abound, but reality rarely touches their lives. How
else can we explain our prime minister golfing while our dollar turns to
toilet paper, or a cabinet minister refusing to acknowledge the very people
his job depends on as their lives are shattered by his mismanagement?
Marijuana decriminalization is just another example of how we are shut out
of the democratic system our government touts as one of the best in the world.

Steve Middleton NORTH VANCOUVER


Checked-by: Pat Dolan