PROHIBITIONISTS ARE IN CONTROL OF THE BORDER

Editor: Who controls the U.S.-Canada border (Editorial: Crossing the
line, The Times, May 24)?

Cannabis (marijuana) prohibitionists do, that's who. Cannabis
prohibition is a discredited, failed and harmful government-subsidized
discrimination program that should never have been allowed to start
and should have ended years ago. Problems due to cannabis prohibition
can only increase; nothing good will ever come from the nightmare.
Nearly every study, including government studies, call for an end to
the farce.

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 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.

For decades, U.S. prohibitionists have spent billions to perpetuate
reefer madness and millions of North Americans bought the crime. The
only way to end the misdeeds is to finally end cannabis prohibition.
It's time to treat cannabis prohibitionists like vampires.

Stan White,

Dillon, Colorado