WEED, GRASS, GREEN, ROACH

Either some Ontario bureaucrats have moved out East or the malaise
that causes them to be unreasonable and inflexible about vanity
licence plates is contagious and spreading fast. New Brunswick's
licence plate police wouldn't let a woman get a plate spelling her
maiden name -- Weed -- because it could be perceived as a reference
to Marijuana.

A cursory search of the phone book indicates there are plenty of
other last names that might not pass the bureaucratic smell test,
including Grass, Green, Roach, High, Blunt and Budd. The notion a
word on a licence plate will encourage illegal drug use is
outlandish. The fact bureaucrats can prevent someone from putting
their name on a vanity plate is absurd. Licence plate police
everywhere should lighten up.