A Usenet persona calling itself Michael Daly wrote:

On 12-Feb-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

get the offenders to fix the problem
themselves

But they're only offenders in your eyes. Extraterritorial enforcement
of laws is against international law.

No it's not. It's usually called "diplomacy."



If Canada decriminalizes pot possession, it has no direct effect on the
US.

As long as that remains true, no problem.

However, they keep getting cranky and threatening every time the
topic comes up.

We have a perfect right to get "cranky and threatening" if you Canadians are
doing something we don't like. Moreover, we have a perfect right to impose
economic sanctions against any nation that we perceive as a threat to us,
for whatever reason. Neither Canada nor any other nation on the face of the
earth has any inherent right to trade with us or enjoy the economic or
technological benefits this country provides. If you want to be partners in
prosperity with us, then you have to keep us happy. When you **** us off,
we're perfectly free to take our ball and go home.

Most countries treat drug addiction as a medical problem;

That's why they have a rampant drug problems that cost their citizens
enormous amounts of money to deal with.

the US holds to obsolete ideas about it being a criminal problem.

It's both. At the user level, I agree it's mostly a medical and behavioral
problem. At the distribution level, it's most certainly a criminal problem,
and we should be taking much more pro-active measures to prevent the
cultivation and import of drugs from foreign nations...like shooting down
smuggler's aircraft without warning and securing our borders.

Fix
it in your own country and stop trying to export your backward problems.

Stop sucking at the US teat then. Let's close the Canadian border entirely
and see how long you last without imports from the US, not to mention our
tourist money.


--
Regards,
Scott Weiser

"I love the Internet, I no longer have to depend on
friends, family and co-workers, I can annoy people WORLDWIDE!" TM

© 2005 Scott Weiser