DRUG WAR EMPOWERS INTERNATIONAL CARTELS

Re Canadian drug profits fund terror: RCMP, July 15.

The RCMP is claiming the illegal hashish trade helps fund terrorism.
Perhaps if the RCMP weren't busting marijuana operations in Canada,
international drug cartels wouldn't be cashing in on the country's demand
for marijuana. Replacing a local cottage industry with global crime
syndicates that help finance terrorism can hardly be considered drug war
success.

If marijuana prohibition is funding organized crime at home and terrorists
abroad, perhaps it's time for Canada to tax and regulate the sale of
marijuana to adults. In the meantime, I suggest Canadian pot smokers stick
to B.C. bud before U.S. President George W. Bush gets wind of Canada's role
as a financier of international terrorism and adds it to the axis-of-evil
hit list.

Robert Sharpe

Program Officer

Drug Policy Alliance

Washington, D.C.