Marc Emery is known around the world as the "Prince of Pot". The USA is currently trying to extradite and imprison Marc Emery, better known in Canada as the "Prince of Pot",  a Canadian activist for selling marijana seeds.  This opens the question of drug laws and international integrity.  ChrisMorrow origionally wrote on this issue.

Now I am against the current drug laws.  Its a failed war that has cost both the United States and Canada in resources and in human suffering.  Our approach has filled our prisons with people who should never be there, strengthened organized crime, and increased the avaiability of drugs and the corruption of officials.  You would think we should have learned our lesson from Prohabition in the United States.

I suggest that we legalize drugs and treat addiction as a medical problem.  Thus uncloging our courts to deal with real crime, wipe out the majority of organized crime by killing their sources of income.  We will always have our problems with alcohol and drugs no matter what we do, but legalizing them will decrease the problems in a very dramatic way.

No, I don't drink alcohol, or use drugs.  Never have and never will.  But I have been a Policeman, Parole Agent, and Probation Officer, and have seen the results of the way that we deal with it in the legal system.  I have also worked with addicts in treatment centers as a psychologist.  It has become clear to me that we have failed on all fronts, and need to take a dramatic turn in the direction we are going.

And lastly, while I am a dual citizen of the US and Canada, I must say that Canada has to stand up to the US in this issue.  If the US wishes to follow a failing course of anti-drug action, fine, but Canada is a separate country and has the right to pursue a different course of action.

Remember the drug wars in Mexico are largely the result of the actions of US citizens using them and the laws against drugs (especially pot use)that make it profitable for crime lords.