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WINDSOR, Ont. -- Marijuana is less dangerous than alcohol and tobacco and
should be decriminalized, a federal committee examining the country's drug
policies was told yesterday.

"If we discovered three drugs today and they were alcohol, tobacco and
marijuana, there isn't an expert in the country who would recommend that
marijuana be the one that is banned based on individual and societal harm,"
Dr. Patrick Smith of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health told the
Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs.