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News (Media Awareness Project) - CN ON: PUB LTE: Drug Raids Are Not The Answer
Title:CN ON: PUB LTE: Drug Raids Are Not The Answer
Published On:2004-01-16
Source:Alliston Herald (CN ON)
Fetched On:2008-01-19 00:13:26
DRUG RAIDS ARE NOT THE ANSWER

Regarding the recent drug bust at the former Molson plant:

I suppose the cops are on the verge of getting this whole drug problem
under control, eh?

Please, spare me this spin-meister idiocy. The cops are lucky if they
touch five per cent of the illicit drug activity occurring, and that
has not changed in over a century. Hey, look at my country spending
$100 billion dollars per year at all levels of government targeting
street drugs.

We sure are experiencing success too, with a nice methamphetamine
epidemic sweeping our nation.

It's a stupid news story, crops numbering over 50,000 plants occur in
my country's national forests every year, and most go undetected.

The only thing I see is a media committed to printing the most inane
ignorant drug policy analysis they possibly can.

Every single major drug policy study ever done has recommended
decriminalization, most legalization of marijuana -- all of them, for
a century. None of them recommend police targeting street drugs for
success.

Perhaps your staff needs to review the Le Dain Commission Report, then
perhaps you can editorialize intelligently.

Matthew Hulett,

Brick, N.J.
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