LIES AND FALLACIES

READING THE juvenile, unenlightened arguments put forward by big-government
apologists like Roy Clancy (June 2) in favour of continuing prohibition on
soft-drugs, is perhaps the best advertisement in favour of their
legalization. As with all anti-pot rhetoric, his column is filled with lies
and fallacies.

Roy revels in referring to pot-smokers as "lethargic, slow-witted stoners."
That is like branding all social drinkers as drunken alcoholics. Thanks to
ignorant individuals like Clancy, who've learned nothing from history, and
blindly defer personal decision-making to distant bureaucrats, the noose
big-government has wrapped around society's neck remains tight.

B. Fradette

(When the smoke clears, give the column another read).