GIVE CANNABIS CONSUMERS RESPECT

Re: Study Says B.C. Has Most Stoners.

Last week's study on marijuana use has revealed that one in six
British Columbia residents use marijuana at least once a year and 16
per cent of B.C. residents smoke pot regularly.

With numbers like that you'd think that your publication could stop
using derogatory names like stoner to refer to these hard-working Canadians.

These people pay their taxes, raise their families and vote like
everyone who goes home and drinks a few beers or sips a couple
glasses of wine. You don't call those people drunks, booze hounds or
alcoholics every chance you get -- the least you could do is pay the
same respect to the cannabis-consuming people of this province.

Derek Mackie,

Vancouver