ANTI-POT LETTER LUDICROUS

To the editor:

I am writing in response to the ludicrous letter to the editor I read in
your paper (Visit Drug Rehab, Donham, The Sunday Daily News, March
18). The letter writer makes numerous satirical comments as to members of
the professional communities engaging in drug taking at every opportunity
when the prohibition laws are removed. How inane.

In comparison, alcohol has been legal for quite some time but I have never
seen an airline pilot, attorney, physician, etc., get drunk on their work
break merely because alcohol is legal.

If any members of these communities were to engage in drug use during
working hours it would be due to their own psychological problems, not the
legal availability of the substance in question. People such as this have
no problem now obtaining the product on the black market and legal
availability would not increase or decrease their own personal problems.

As well, drug lords would not become richer. The government would control
the supply of product and enjoy the revenues streams from it. I feel Parker
Barss Donham made an excellent, well-reasoned case in his column, and to
print this drivel attacking his piece is a waste of your editorial space
and your readers' time.

Mike Patriquen

Marijuana Party