On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Bob Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill, > My father was born in 1920 and had no memories of prohibition. > If that's what your asking me to compare to, you're gonna have to find > something more current. > My only drug experience comes thru my brother the attorney. > He is taking public defender cases on cocaine arrests of gangbangers. > How much of that do they have in Regina? > These young men do not have much life expectancy. > I can't say much more as I don't have the first hand experience. > I will say it is a sad thing... > Regards, Bob S.
Actually (and I know that Bill is ~more~ than capable of answering for himself) I just heard or read recently that Regina has about the highest crime rate in Canada - higher that Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver (all much larger cities). I do not in any way condone drug use, however what's clear to me is that prohibition and criminalization has been shown to be a miserable failure - now as it was with alcohol in the '30's. There are now more addicts out there, and they're filling jails at a remarkable rate (at least in the US). General and specific deterrence doesn't work. That doesn't seem to be a good thing. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
