CANNABIS PROTESTERS SHOWED COURAGE

It takes courage to come out in support of a cannabis rally, especially
when the local paper has referred to the festival as a gathering of law
breakers.

But your paper is right; as the law stands now, those who smoke cannabis
are breaking the law.

Not those who smoke and rob stores, or smoke and kill people. Merely the
act of smoking can send a person to jail.

If this does not seem just in our present society then smokers must take
recourse with their votes. When the next elections come around, vote only
for those candidates who take a reasonable position on cannabis and drug
policies as a whole.

We can look around today and realise that current strategies have only
imprisoned many capable adults while doing nothing to stem the demand for
drugs, especially cannabis.

New approaches are necessary to get our policies in line with reality.

Dan Goldman
Madison USA