ANTI-POT ARGUMENTS JUST A LOT OF SMOKE

Recently, claims have been made by MPs in the House of Commons that Canada
cannot decriminalize marijauna, as it would breach our obligations to the
United Nations. This is clearly nonsense.

All international treaties allow signatory nations to determine their own
drug policy. The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1960, specifically
states "the parties may choose to impose minor penalties such as fines or
even censure," as does the International Convention on Trafficking.

To suggest that decriminalization violates international law is a specious
argument generated solely to give credence to the government's
back-pedalling on its previously stated position of decriminalization,
which may be attributed to pressure from the American zealots.

Darryl Slywchuk

Ailsa Craig