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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lino... who wrote (7569)	1/16/2006 11:08:11 AM
From: Ichy Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37392

mUch of the information you give is based on statistics based on encouraging children to deal with criminals. As long as you are content to leave drugs in the hands of criminals, you will have the same idiocy to deal with. During prohibition in the 1920's huge fortunes were made and all kinds of people died. Unless as a nation we are willing to look at what we are doing by leaving drugs in the hands of criminals and attempt somehow to regulate the strength, purity, and access in some way other than the prohibition which seems to work so poorly, we are doomed to more crime, more dead bodies and more wasted lives. It is okay when it is other peoples children, once it becomes you own, it seems like something else should be done. In Canada we have way too much invested in enforcement, and way to little invested in treatment. Just as at one time we did not treat alcoholics, so Canadians are still too stupid to realise that we need to treat drug addicts, and we need the treatment available when the person is ready, not in none months after they are worse off, or dead.