It's time to end the phoney war on drugs

William Johnson, Opinion, The Ottawa Citizen:

We are supposedly engaged in a "war on drugs." What war on drugs? It's a war on people - the young, the uneducated and the aboriginals. A phoney war, because it provokes that which it proclaims to repress.

The American-Canadian approach is ineffective and hypocritical. Have we not learned the lesson of the destructive U.S. prohibition against alcohol, its reign of crime and killing? The more repressive the prohibition, the higher the price of the drug, so the more attractive to organized crime. Crime bosses recruit poor saps who sell the drugs on the street. Those who get arrested are easily replaced.

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