POT COMMENTS ARE PANNED

Editor:

Re: Time to Get Tough on Grow-Ops, Free Press, November 3.

Misinformation permeates pot prohibition. Anyone with no experience
or training will fail as a cannabis grower, unless Mr. Williams left
it to the reader to assume that intelligent people know full well how
much there is to know to grow good pot.

The so called criminal element in the cannabis industry only exists
as such because of unjust and unethical laws. Pot prohibition has
already failed. The profiteers have yet to give up their cash cow.
How many have made careers out of this witch hunt?

The easiest way to overcome the problem of the cannabis industry
operating with cash is legalization, regulation, and taxation. Until
legalization, our law makers will be playing into the hands of those
who benefit from the current arrangement.

The reason getting caught growing is largely dismissed by judges is
because they have better things to do than clutter our crowded jails
with gardeners.

Grows are lucrative because market forces make them so under
prohibition. If pot were legalized, the price would likely become
more reasonable, more people would grow their own, and over time,
slightly fewer people would smoke pot.

It's outright nonsense that today's pot is stronger than in the past.
There are countless recollections about extremely potent strains from
many countries over the years old-timers can tell you all about. Pot
can only get so potent, and then you fall asleep.

It's not yet time for the pot prohibition witch hunt to end. There
are still too many people in power opposing the people's will, but
rest assured, not only is a majority of Canadians in favor of freeing
cannabis, with restrictions, but our youth are figuring out in
significant numbers they're been lied to by prohibitionists. Further,
80 per cent of Canadians are in favor of medical cannabis.

Arthur Williams' rhetoric is inconvenient, but all too easy to discredit.

Bruce Codere

Fox Creek, Alberta