CRAIG PUSHES CRACKPOT DRUG PLAN

Dear Editor:

Wallace Gilby Craig, in his argument for marijuana prohibition, puts
together a conflicted and torturous piece of prose, which, in my
experience, is a common result when trying to lump pot in with harder
drugs.

Without going into a detailed rebuttal, suffice it to say that the
profound difference between, say, pot and crack is blindingly obvious
to anyone who has ever had exposure to the two. Suggesting the policy
responses to recreational marijuana use and hard drug addiction should
be the same is ideological drivel.

Craig opposes marijuana use not because of any fact-based argument
regarding its harm to society, but because it is "narcissistic." That,
apparently, is the crime. Strip away the layers of rhetoric and you
can see the argument for what it really is: Puritan dogma.

Adam La Rusic

North Vancouver