PROHIBITIONISTS GIVE CRIMINALS THEIR POWER

Thank you for your series of articles on organized crime in B.C. What they
make crystal clear is that it is not marijuana, heroin or any other drug
that has created their power, wealth and influence, but rather smug,
self-righteous prohibitionists.

If tea and coffee were banned, and marijuana and other drugs legalized,
these gangs would become coffee and tea merchants, in short order. Just as
in the U.S. during the '20s, with Al Capone and his gang, it wasn't the
booze that made him powerful, but its prohibition.

People will have their pleasures and pursuits in a free society, no matter
how influential the smug, self-satisfied prohibitionists become.

William Tate,
Victoria.