Pubdate: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 Source: Chief, The (CN BC) Copyright: 2010 Whistler Printing & Publishing Contact: http://www.squamishchief.com/section/squamish0303&template=letter Website: http://www.squamishchief.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2414 Author: Alan Randell Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10/n1050/a03.html?1170 LETTER 'POMPOUS, ARROGANT' EDITOR, Re. "Bill enjoyed broad-based support," Letters, Dec. 17. What a pompous, smug and arrogant letter John Weston, your local MP, sent in an attempt to persuade us to support his bill to ratchet up the failing war on drugs. Weston submits not a scintilla of evidence that the legislation will do anything to reduce the harm done to users and non-users alike by illegal drugs. His entire justification is that the bill is supported by all the various elites whose careers and paycheques depend on the continuation of drug prohibition, the most disastrous social policy legislation ever inflicted upon the Canadian people. The only way, THE ONLY WAY, to ameliorate the harm of illegal drugs is to legalize them Alan Randell Victoria - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake