News (Media Awareness Project) - CN YK: PUB LTE: Marijuana Prohibition Doesn't Work! |
Title: | CN YK: PUB LTE: Marijuana Prohibition Doesn't Work! |
Published On: | 2006-05-24 |
Source: | Whitehorse Star (CN YK) |
Fetched On: | 2008-01-14 04:23:09 |
MARIJUANA PROHIBITION DOESN'T WORK!
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said the Conservative government
doesn't want to waste taxpayers' dollars on an expensive and
ineffective gun registration policy that does nothing to increase
public safety.
Marijuana prohibition is an expensive and ineffective policy that does
nothing to increase public safety - in fact, it subsidizes organized
crime and dramatically increases public danger!
The Tories plan to build more jails to accommodate all the new
pot-smoking and pot-growing inmates.
When we measure the cost of enforcement, courts and corrections, and
add that to the cost of stolen hydro, property damage, increased
insurance rates, and gun violence, marijuana prohibition is wasting
nearly $2 billion - every single year!
Both the gun registry and the sponsorship scandal are small potatoes
by comparison.
Russell Barth
Ottawa
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said the Conservative government
doesn't want to waste taxpayers' dollars on an expensive and
ineffective gun registration policy that does nothing to increase
public safety.
Marijuana prohibition is an expensive and ineffective policy that does
nothing to increase public safety - in fact, it subsidizes organized
crime and dramatically increases public danger!
The Tories plan to build more jails to accommodate all the new
pot-smoking and pot-growing inmates.
When we measure the cost of enforcement, courts and corrections, and
add that to the cost of stolen hydro, property damage, increased
insurance rates, and gun violence, marijuana prohibition is wasting
nearly $2 billion - every single year!
Both the gun registry and the sponsorship scandal are small potatoes
by comparison.
Russell Barth
Ottawa
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