DRUGS MESSAGE IS MISSING THE POINT

Warning people that the "drugs are bad" is a message that is not
getting through.

Has it struck the editors that the people who are doing the drugs
don't trust the messenger since all they see published are lists of
statistics from the Government?

The death toll is soaring because the people are kept ignorant in
order to save souls rather than lives.

During alcohol prohibition, adulterated drugs killed and blinded people.

At least the papers of the time didn't pull any punches in drawing a
straight line from prohibition to adulterated drink.

After all, they could have become victims of prohibition too. There
is a direct correlation to be made in that street drugs the world
over are of unknown purity, made with who knows what, who knows where.

Repealing drug prohibition and making all that soul-destroying stuff
available down at the pharmacy would save a lot of lives.

Human beings can recover from an addiction, they can't recover from
criminal convictions or death.

To this day I have not heard a reasoned argument about why drugs
need to be prohibited or proscribed. The government has no more
right to control what free men put in their bodies than the
government has right to control what ideas free people put in their
own heads. Check out Santa's grotto, listen to wonderful
Cork Choirs, visit Christmas stalls.

CHRIS BUORS

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA