Pubdate: Mon, 09 Jun 2003
Source: Time Magazine (Canada)
Copyright: 2003, Canoe Limited Partnership.
Contact:  http://www.timecanada.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1115
Author: Tim Meehan
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n727/a06.html?1523
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/decrim.htm (Decrim/Legalization)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada)

BORDERLINE INSANITY

In his essay "Stirring the Pot" [May 19], Stephen Handleman wrote on U.S. 
concerns about a radical plan to overhaul Canada's marijuana laws. When 
Bush Administration officials talk of tightening already strict border 
inspections because of Canada's drug-reform plans, Canadians and Americans 
should remember the lesson of Operation Intercept. On Sept. 21, 1969, the 
Nixon Administration began searching all vehicles crossing into the U.S. 
from Mexico.  Border traffic was paralyzed. After protests from the 
American business community, the operation ended three weeks later. Despite 
the warnings issued by President Bush's drug czar, John Walters,  a massive 
trade interruption between the U.S. and Canada for such a trivial issue 
will not be repeated at the U.S.'s northern frontier.

Tim Meehan Communications Director Ontario Consumers for Safe Access to 
Recreational Cannabis
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