PARKING VIOLATION

Parking a marijuana-loaded semi-trailer in Bolingbrook in a Pace parking
lot intended for passenger vehicles only is an outrage. Just because a
driver is hauling a 7-ton load of reefer doesn't give him or her the right
to disrespect parking regulations. Whoever parked this weed-rig should be
cited, particularly since there was plenty of "drug parking" available in
an adjacent truck-stop lot.

Seriously though, this 7-ton drug war is not to be taken lightly.

If we taxpayers hope to roll with the drugwar punches and if we hope to be
able to afford the cost of building a new "Ecstasy prison" - once Illinois
legislators toughen the penalties for club drugs to cocaine and heroin
proportions - then marijuana violations must be kept in parking-ticket
perspective.

Rollin', rollin', rollin' - keep those jalapenos comin' - drug war.

James E. Gierach, Oak Lawn