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Letter of the day: Prohibition is a killer
Grieving mother Lori Davis is comforted by an RCMP officer on Jan. 27. (WINNIPEG FREE PRESS)
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Re: 'Drugs killed my youngest son': A mother's endless pain (Jan. 28). Our hearts go out to Lori Davis as she grieves the loss of her son to drugs. Her situation brought to mind that terrible day back in 1993 when two police officers knocked on our door to let us know our son, Peter, had died earlier that morning. Later, we found out he had been ingesting heroin the night before.
Our response to the loss of our son is somewhat different than Davis's. We felt then, as we do today, that Peter's death was brought about by the law prohibiting certain drugs and not by the drugs themselves.
When America prohibited alcohol, thousands were poisoned by adulterated black market booze and countless more slaughtered by criminals fighting over illicit profits. When alcohol was legalized again, the number of such incidents was drastically reduced.
Today, our children are dying because of drug prohibition. The carnage will end only when we come to our senses and allow users once again to purchase clean, cheap, quality-tested drugs at the corner store, just as tobacco users now do.
ALAN RANDELL
Victoria
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition January 31, 2012 A11
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