LETTER OF THE WEEK

BANNING DRUGS PLAYS INTO HAND OF ORGANIZED CRIME FACTION

By Wayne Phillips

Re: 'Northern Health follies' published Wed., Dec. 2.

If "harm reduction" can be equated to aiding and abetting addicts and
drug dealers, et al, then surely drug prohibition must likewise be
seen as aiding and abetting organized crime (in the perpetuation of
drug crime). For if it were not for the prohibition of drugs to
begin with, the exasperation of these problems would never have occurred.

After all, believing drug prohibition sends "messages" that condemns
drugs is sheer nonsense; it's fanciful/magical thinking. Drug
prohibition, in effect, gives control of drugs over to organized
crime; nothing more, nothing less. All that support it, likewise,
aid and abet organized crime; some are just more aware of it then others.

Perhaps then picking corpses from the streets is actually preferred
over the reduction of harm, yes?

Wayne Phillips

Hamilton, Ontario

Pubdate: Mon, 07 Dec 2009

Source: Prince George Citizen (CN BC)

Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n1083/a10.html