POT WORSE?

Re: Pot worse than alcohol, Harper says, Sept. 6.

Besides the fact that teens already have access to black market pot of
questionable purity from completely unregulated criminal sources who also
supply coke and heroin, choosing cannabis is healthier than choosing
alcohol or tobacco.

Australian studies have shown that when access to cannabis is liberalized
there is a "substitution effect" resulting in less deaths due to drinking.
Since pot has resulted in no known deaths and alcohol can result in
immediate death to a teen from driving or overdosing or poor judgement
while drunk, it would be in everyone's better interest if that teen chose
pot instead.

I would also just like to remind readers that the police are supposed to
enforce the laws, not set them. The Canadian Police Association lobbying to
keep pot prohibition in place is more of a "back to school gift for drug
pushers" than the senate report since the black market is what fuels
organized crime.