denise savoie

By Diane Walsh, Pacific Free Press   To any rational person, the consequences on society of bad drug policy are obvious. Writing in the Toronto Star’s June 3, 2009, issue, Victoria police officer David Bratzer cites “public disorder, backlogged courts, high property crime rates, organized crime and gang violence over control of the drug trade” to try to awake the public to realize that “these costs are not worth an absolute prohibition on drug use in our society”.