LEGALIZING POT

As a medical marijuana user and drug law reform advocate I offer heartfelt
condolences to the families and co-workers of the RCMP officers brutally
gunned down in Alberta. Violence is simply not acceptable, especially when
the victims are officers attempting to protect public safety.

It was prohibition, and not cannabis users or growers as such, that caused
these senseless killings. If the cannabis growing business were regulated,
these types of things would not happen. Regulation would give police more
powers of investigation and enforcement, and would allow them to abandon
the increasingly dangerous war on drugs.

Russell Barth

Educators For Sensible Drug Policy, Ottawa.