WARRIORS BELIEVE WAR NEEDS TO BE WON

Dear Editor,

Obviously, drug prohibition only works to a small degree, depending
upon whose statistics are being quoted [Evidence clear, and Evidence
abounds, Oct. 12 Letters to the Editor, Langley Advance News].

But the war on drugs is being waged by those who sincerely believe the
war has to be won, and your correspondents are suggesting that,
because they want to be free to do what they feel like doing, those
who are waging the war against them should not have the same right -
the right to prosecute them for breaking the law.

In short, your correspondents are suggesting that law and order is
fine, as long as it doesn't affect them.

It is convenient to quote statistics that seemingly show crime
decreasing at any given time, but in order to prove crime and violence
decreased after prohibition was repealed, we would have to go back in
time and do it all over again, but without the same people involved or
crimes committed.

It is like getting flu shots, and then claiming that, because we took
the flu shots on Monday and did not get the flu by the following
Saturday, it was the flu shots that prevented us from getting the flu,
which simply cannot be proven without getting the same individual over
the same period of time without taking the shots.

As for the claim that cannabis is used to combat a "litany of
symptoms," if you sincerely believe there is a magic molecule inside
cannabis that justifies the use of marijuana, even if it leads to
addiction, it would fall under the category of faith-healing, but not
something that can be proven except to the most addicted individual.

Ken J. Marsh

Langley City