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Dear Editor:

Underworld narcotic cartels make unspeakable billions of dollars in profit,
with few expenses except for a small percentage to pay lawyers' fees, bail
and bribery. Much of their profit is spent on luxuries and development.

We, as the public purse, spend hundreds of billions of dollars on policing
the drug trade, policing theft to purchase drugs, providing health care to
drug addicts, customs searches, court costs for drug arrests, prison costs
for the convicted; while the potential luxury money of most Canadians and
Americans is deducted from our wages and added to our purchase costs, to
make an attempt to cut back on drug lords' luxuries.

These questions arise: Are we nearing the summit with our war on drugs? Are
our political soldiers brave enough? Was there ever a war on drugs? Should
the drug lords, with their enormous global wealth and power, be included as
members of a G-9?

Bob Ritchie

Wolfville