STOP BEING HYPOCRITES AND DECRIMINALIZE POT

What is less socially disruptive than alcohol, less addictive than
tobacco, less harmful to your health than caffeine, and whose use is a
criminal offence in this country? Don't know?

How about this one: what's causing unnecessary emotional, physical and
financial suffering to otherwise lawabiding citizens, while making
real criminals rich? Give up? The answer to the first is marijuana. To
the second, the laws against its use. In some countries, they put
people to death for drinking alcohol. Our government is more humane.
We just put people in jail for smoking pot, while our leaders dictate
the official "drug of choice" for Canadians: the one they use
themselves. It is possible for a person to be elected to public office
even if he or she is a regular drinker, provided they've never
inhaled. Come on Canada, let's set an example to the States. Let's
show them that the "war on drugs" can't be won by draconian laws, but
only through education. Let's stop being hypocrites and decriminalize
marijuana, the least harmful drug around.

Barbara Tanner,

Ottawa