WAR ON ILLICIT DRUGS IS LOST

If the report of the Urban Health Research Initiative is correct, the
war on illicit drugs is lost. Making the sale and use of illicit
drugs illegal has had an unfortunate and entirely predictable
consequence. Apparently, governments learned nothing from Prohibition
in the first quarter of the 20th century. The prohibition of alcohol
in the U.S. led to the rise of organized crime that still flourishes.
The same could be said for illicit drugs in Canada and the U.S.
Perhaps if these drugs were regulated in the same way as alcohol and
tobacco, the huge profits funneled into organized crime would be cut off.

Gary Schofield

(Not "perhaps." This futile war does more harm than good.)