Legalize marijuana sales, say B.C. experts
By Contributor
A high-profile political campaign has been launched to “end the cannabis cash cow of organized crime,” the CBC reports.
A group of B.C. police officers, health professionals, legal experts and academics is calling for the legalization and regulated sale of marijuana.
Called Stop the Violence, the group includes former B.C. Supreme Court justice Ross Lander and B.C.’s former chief coroner Vince Cain.
Panel member Dr. Evan Wood, of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, says marijuana prohibition is fuelling gang warfare, and school children now have easier access to pot than either alcohol or cigarettes, because of the reach of organized crime.
“Instead of having a regulated market, we’ve turned things over to this extremely violent unregulated market controlled by organized crime,” said Wood.
- The story continues at: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/10/27/bc-stop-the-violence-marijuana-coalition.html?cmp=rss
