WAR ON GROW-OPS IS NOT THE ANSWER

To the Editor,

Re: Editorial, Need for a Plan That Works, Nov. 27

Albert Einstein once said, "The prestige of government has
undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For
nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law
of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open
secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is
closely connected with this."

It appears that in addition to increasing the crime rate and giving a
monopoly on a product used by ten percent of Canadians to criminals
our fundamentalist Conservative government is also doing their best
to lower your property values.

By increasing penalties for grow-ops they would proportionally
increase the violence.

It does not take a scientist like Einstein to see that the solution
is to let each province regulate like alcohol. Apparently half of
Canadians and our Senate agree.

All the feds need to do is let the provinces deal with this as they
wish. At least one province is sure to find a solution better than
the status quo.

Chuck Beyer

Port Alberni B.C.