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Premiers of provinces around Canada claim to be very happy with federal
government decision to increase penalties for amphetamine offences.
Are they really stupid or just pretend I to be?  The history of war on
drugs proved again and again that tougher penalties just do not work.
I can tell you what will be the result of increased penalties.  Drugs
will get more expensive, addicted people will have greater difficulty
to satisfy their needs and will more often resort to robberies and
other violent crimes to get the money.  So, the crime will not
decrease, but rather will increase.

Drugs do not create crime, absence of drugs does.  I have been an
observer in jail for over 13 years.  Majority of people in jail are
using drugs.  When a person is stoned, he either sleeps or smiles to
everybody, is very happy and does not attack anyone.  When a person is
sober and needs drugs, this is when he is dangerous.  He will not
hesitate for a second to kill a taxi driver for $10 to get his next
fix.  Is not it obvious that a much better solution is to give every
addict drugs for free plus a safe place to use them?  It is none of the
government business to put people in jail, just because they are
harming themselves.  People have absolute fight to their bodies.

The money saved on incarcerating people should be used to pay for
detoxification programs and free drugs.  In exactly the same way as end
of Prohibition finished with bootlegging, distribution of free drugs
will spell an end to organised crime, since nobody will be buying from
them drugs at their exorbitant prices.

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