I was surfing on the net the other day, actually searching for genealogy sites, when I happened onto an Irish newspaper. There was an article that caught my attention about a young mother who was arrested for selling cannabis. The police broke down her door, found the woman and two associates dividing up a small quantity of cannabis resin and arrested them. The judge found the woman guilty and sentenced her to prison. The townspeople have shunned her. She is not supposed to go to jail until March at which time, the judge will probably suspend the sentence because she is the mother of two small children.

I found this all very harsh and vowing never to go to Ireland, I prepared to blast off an editorial over the ocean waves. Before I even put pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard, I heard about another alarming cannabis arrest, this time in my own country, in Abbotsford, B.C.

There, the SWAT team burst into a house where a children's birthday party was taking place. The family dog was shot, blood splattering on a nearby child. The children all started screaming. A quantity of marijuana and mushrooms was found.

This is Canada. O Canada.

Then, just days ago, the federal prison guards were protesting in Ottawa. One of these men punched Daryl Bean, Union Leader, in the stomach on the steps of Parliament. Now, what do you suppose these guys are doing to prison inmates behind closed doors? Prison inmates, who , chances are, are there on drug charges, 60-40 odds.

Wake up, O Canada! This War on Drugs must be stopped. It is a War on Youth. It is a War on Poor People! It is a war like any other and it is escalating. If you have an interest in freedom, justice and peace, then you must be concerned about this. It is imperative that parents and respectable and respected people speak out before it is too late. O Canada!

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