CANNABIS PROHIBITION IS A REPREHENSIBLE BLUNDER

RE "SLAVES tend pot ...Viets smuggled in by crime gangs" (Sun, June 3) :

Do politicians favour cannabis prohibition because it finances crime gangs
at home or the criminal element abroad?

It is incomprehensible why a government - who could take effective measures
to remove the profit factor from grow operations by either reclassifying
cannabis or removing it from the CDSA entirely - doesn't.

Meanwhile, that prohibition will continue to further empower crime gangs.
CANNABIS PROHIBITION IS A REPREHENSIBLE BLUNDER THAT SERVES NO ONE'S
long-term best interest.

Likewise, it is a mistake to think that if the government moves in the
direction of a reconsidered cannabis initiative it will send out a message
that it condones cannabis use. Government will simply be recognizing there
are more effective means available that it is prepared to initiate in order
to better cope with the realities of cannabis use in contemporary society.

Wayne Phillips

(Would you make the same argument about harder drugs?)