ANTIQUATED MARIJAUNA LAWS BEST DEPOSITED IN DUSTBIN

To the editor:

Re: "Bureaucrats forget weed's influence on art world," Feb. 20.

While it is unsurprising that city bureaucrats would release such a
lacklustre document, it is more surprising that pro-pot artists,
along with the rest of us, continue to allow a minority of
ultra-reactionaries to define this country's antiquated marijuana laws.

How many of us are actually opposed--unlike the pro-War on Drugs RCMP
along with the Harper Consevative's crop of "law and order"
politicians--to the government's latest laws affecting marijuana
users, where one can go to jail for six months for giving some bud
taken from a single pot plant to a few friends?

Is this really how far we've come since the fed's own Le Dain
Commission recommended decriminalization almost 30 years ago?

According to any surveys I've seen, most people in Canada favour the
decriminalization or legalization of marijuana, including a number of
the Conservative's own supporters. That list also includes medical
professionals who appreciate marijuana's medicinal value, a majority
of the middle-aged, along with a great majority of young people.

This should tell us something: that our marijuana laws are a relic of
the past and should be consigned to the dustbin of history.

Calvin Woida,

Vancouver