MARIJUANA PROHIBITION IS FUTILE

Like the proverbial broken record, The Gazette reported again last
week that Paul Cellucci, U.S. ambassador to Canada, is upset about the
federal government's reintroduction of marijuana-law reform
legislation (Gazette, Nov. 10, "New pot law could cause border
gridlock: U.S. envoy").

What he seems to be saying is that bringing marijuana laws more in
line with reality, and those of some U.S.states even, will only bring
us more grief and delays at the border.

At the present time, existing North American law-enforcement officers
are proving incapable of preventing hundreds of tons of pot from
entering the U.S. from Canada every year.

By the way, this is completely dwarfed by the amount of weed making
its way into to the U.S. from Mexico, never mind all that illegal
immigration.

This just goes to show how porous long borders are, and it makes you
wonder what percentage of terrorists and their munitions are getting
through as well. Or are they suddenly catching 100 per cent of the
terrorists?

The powers that be don't seem to get it. Keeping marijuana illegal is
what organized crime needs to flourish. If I wasn't suffering from
severe paranoid delusions from smoking cannabis, I'd swear they were
doing it on purpose.

Bill Parker

Val-des-Lacs