JUST SAY NO TO AMERICAN INQUISITION, SAYS READER

Re: Criminal profits should be fair games (March 10, P. 4):

The U.S. civil asset forfeiture model is certainly lucrative. Police
can confiscate cars, cash and homes without bothering to charge
owners with a crime. Vague allegations of drug trafficking don't
justify turning protectors of the peace into financial predators.

Police searches on public transit, drug-sniffing dogs in schools, and
random drug testing have led to a loss of civil liberties in America,
while failing miserably at preventing drug use. A majority of
European Union countries have decriminalized marijuana. Despite
marijuana prohibition and perhaps because of forbidden fruit appeal,
lifetime use of marijuana is higher in the U.S. than any European country.

Canada's southern neighbor now has the highest incarceration rate in
the world, in large part due to the intergenerational culture war
otherwise known as the war on some drugs. Canada should Just Say No
to the American Inquisition.

Robert Sharpe