SOME VICTORY

Re: "High traffic venues shut by police" (Gazette, June 4).

Cannabis prohibition is a disgrace to our country. Canada is spending
billions on building more prisons to lock up non-violent drug
offenders, money that would be much better spent on rehabilitation
centres. The only thing prohibition does well is destroy families and
fund organized crime.

Patients who need medical cannabis are not simply going to stop
getting it just because the police have closed down the "compassion
centres." They're going to get it from a dealer, who gets it from
higher-ranking, more dangerous gangs who deal in cocaine, firearms,
and human trafficking.

Way to go, prohibition - nice one.

Elijah Paull

Pierrefonds