PARENTS, POLITICIANS NEED TO TAKE MORE BLAME FOR YOUTH DRUG USE

EDITOR, THE TIMES:

RE: Parents, Talk To Your Children, May 19, Our View

Parents and politicians refuse to admit that it is their fault that
kids are involved with drugs and gangs. Adults set up this system of
drug prohibition, which subsidizes gangsters and their lifestyles.

Adults keep electing the same prohibitionist hacks who insist that
more prohibition is the best way to solve the problems caused by
prohibition. Adults spend money on enforcement, courts and cages,
instead of spending money on things that actually work, like health
care, education, housing, social programs like art music and sports
for kids, and job creation. You are all getting what you deserve.
(From a federally licensed medical marijuana user and a member of
Patients Against Ignorance and Discrimination on Cannabis.)

Russell Barth

Nepean, Ont.