LET'S FOLLOW CANADIAN LEAD

I was heartened to read your report of August 1 that Ontario's highest court
has declared Canada's law forbidding the possession of marijuana to be
unconstitutional.

It is absurd that a highly effective herbal medicine with very few
undesirable side effects should be illegal.

Hopefully other countries will follow Canada's example and stop wasting
police time and resources hunting down and prosecuting people for using a
naturally-occurring substance that is claimed to be much safer and effective
than many over-the-counter painkillers.

John Yates, Ekenas, Finland