WHY SHOULD MARIJUANA COST MORE THAN COFFEE?

Editor:

I read the piece by Foulds without disagreement until he failed to
pluralize the word "degree."

Then I noticed he omitted mentioning that the proposed relaxed
prohibition legislation by the Liberals got forced by the U.S. to get
tougher in its final form than either the draft or then-existing legislation.

This made me wonder what would a prohibitionist government think of
courts continuing their precedent of relative leniency in the face of
tougher legislation?

I want to interject a question: Why should pot be any more expensive
than coffee?

Also, I question why the police and courts should be considered fit
to assess a course of action for people whose addictions cause harm to others.

Addiction is behaviour we're unable to stop, or whose consequences
are negative. A dependence is behaviour we can stop, or whose
consequences are positive.

The neurological cause of this is from peptides finding neural
receptors, leading to desensitization and repetitive behaviour that
produces a high. We can get addicted to anything. Our brains use the
exact same neural net to see an object for the first time as to
remember it. The brain is unable to distinguish between experience and memory.

We can get addicted to sex, gardening, pain - anything.

Also, legalizing pot is unlikely to make it harder for anyone to get
some, but with education based of facts instead of fears, it's likely
overall use will decline.

Pot goes where it's needed. Remove the pressure by prohibitionists
and pot use will go down.

Legalizing cannabis must mean legalizing cultivation.

What government-approved stores?

In general, nothing can stop people who want to grow pot without
permission. Cannabis, as a last point, is anything but benign, but
it's beneficial to a greater extent than any other plant on Earth.

Bruce Codere

Kamloops