AMERICA'S FOLLY SHOULD NOT BE OUR OWN

Dear Editor,

Your conclusions that ending marijuana prohibition would resolve nothing
left me puzzled. The government would purchase cannabis from growers, put a
reasonable tax on it and sell it. Grown legally, cannabis will be very, very
cheap, i.e. not worth the trouble for most people or for smugglers to grow
their own.

Those who want to smuggle it to America will do what bootleggers did in the
20s and 30s; buy the product legally in Canada and ship it across the
border.

America's folly of cannabis prohibition should be no excuse for Canada to
continue its participation. Moreover, it will allow my colleagues to refocus
on public safety threats like drunk drivers and rapists.

Officer Howard J. Wooldridge (retired)
Media Director, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition