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I enviously enjoyed reading "Lighting up a joint for Cannabian Day" (The
Sunday Herald, Aug. 31), until I got to the BS.

The Canadian Police Association's claim that soft pot laws will "lead to
family problems, unsafe communities and more profits for organized crime" is
unlikely, considering those are the effects of the current cannabis
prohibition, and are more likely to be alleviated once cannabis is
decriminalized, and completely eliminated if Canada heeds the Canadian
Senate's unanimous recommendation to fully re-legalize cannabis.

The pre-eminent example is the original prohibition and how it financed Al
Capone; but once prohibition ended, so, too, did the organized crime funding
from prohibition. The sequel to prohibition will surely react the same.

Caging humans for responsible use of a plant, however, does lead to numerous
family problems, unsafe streets and profits for organized crime.

Stan White,
Dillon, Col.