The Program is watching — a confirming view

Contrarian reader Denis Falvey, a physician and retired Armed Forces Major, responds to our curmudgeonly friend's tale of abuse at the hands of the province's doctor and patient monitoring program prescription monitoring program: Your curmudgeonly friend is correct, on pretty much all points. The so-called war on drugs, like any war, is having serious consequences for innocent bystanders. And, like most wars, it has devolved into destructive nonsense. Drugs are illegal as a result of a misguided attempt to impose morality, back in the early 20th century. After a generation of murder and mayhem, alcohol prohibition was seen by virtually everyone to be...