Editor:
Educators for Sensible Drug Policy is an organization of educators devoted to facts about Canadian drug policy in our schools and communities. Bill C-15 is not helping educators to do their jobs. The government is setting a dangerous precedent of how to teach for failure rather than success.
Experience with alcohol prohibition shows that legalization, regulation and taxation not only can put the government in control of all drugs but can also create the framework to help keep the drugs out of the hands of our youth.
We encourage the government to put a stop to Bill C-15. Prohibition of drugs is a complete failure! Youth know it and are questioning why the government does not know it.
As a parent and grandparent, I will discourage any school that supports and encourages misinformation about drug use and abuse. As a taxpayer I want these public funds to go towards reality-based, scientific drug education programs for my daughters and their children. My family, like every Canadian family, deserves the best in drug education programs backed by the preponderance of available science. And, to be a true Canadian, it will be to show outrage at the government's approach that appears to be enriching gangsters, creating and sustaining more violence in our communities and being ignorant to the cause.
Do we as Canadians want to support failed drug policies that reflect Amer-ican drug war propaganda?
Judith Renaud
Educators for Sensible Drug Policy
Gibsons
