FIGHTING GANGS: POLICIES SUBSIDIZE CRIMINALS

Dear Editor,

The main reason organized crime flourishes is because of government
policies making popular substances and vices illegal [Organized crime
has long history, May 7 Painful Truth, Langley Advance].

This not only subsidizes the criminals, it subsidizes the police and
court system put in place to "fight" the gangs.

The whole thing is a big children's game of cops 'n robbers, but this
game costs billions of dollars and thousands of lives every year.

It is all by design. The War On Certain Plants was never meant to be
"won," it was meant to be continuous and profitable.

And that is why it will never end.

Russell Barth,

Federally Licensed Medical Marijuana User