THOSE WHO WANT POT WILL FIND A WAY TO GET IT

Re: Province is losing war on drug gangs, Alberni Valley News online, Jan.
15.

Tom Fletcher isn't just accurately describing the way things are; he's
describing the direction things are moving too.

In the early 1970s the Le Dain Commission's report along with Canada's
2002, Senate Committee on Illegal Drugs' report unanimously recommended to
regulate cannabis (marijuana) the same way as alcohol.

Since Canada ignored those recommendations, the problems associated with
prohibiting the relatively safe, socially acceptable, God-given plant
cannabis have escalated. And it's not limited to Canada; look at what's
happening in the U.S. and Mexico.

Millions of North Americans have utter contempt for the continent's
discredited cannabis laws, which are nothing more than government
subsidized discrimination.

Millions of North Americans demand cannabis and one way or the other, that
demand will be honoured. Cannabis will be cultivated and it will increase
rather than decrease.

Except for those who profit, nearly every person who uses cannabis would
prefer to acquire it from regulated sources, but all will purchase it in
the black market if necessary. It's just a matter of who consumers give
their money to.

Stan White,

Dillon, Colorado