PROHIBITION PROFITS

If bread were to be criminalized today, it would feed organized crime
tomorrow, which more often than not wears a suit and tie or a uniform,
in both private and public sectors. Prohibition means something will
cost at least 10 times what it would if it were legal. The legal drug
trade in Canada is about $20 billion. The illegal drug trade is over
$200 billion!

Then there's the "Alice In Wonderland" case of tobacco, which is
legal, and still costs 10 times what it should -- the most bizarre
crime of all. Prohibition only creates a self-serving industry, which
includes those who claim to be trying to eradicate it, that will
protect its revenues to the death -- of us, the victims of it.

Steve Hartwell

Toronto