Gary Hines makes it obvious he didn't actually hear any of Peter
March's speech, or that if he did, he wasn't listening.

If you replace the word "marijuana" with "alcohol" in his letter, his
self-righteous chest-beating sounds the same. No one wants our
students consuming alcohol, or our construction workers drinking on
the job, so how does the criminal nature of marijuana make the
situation different? March did not call for kids to do pot, or adults
to consume any substance on the job, he simply called for the
equitable treatment of consumers of alcohol and cannabis.

Hines seems unaware that the only developed country (the Netherlands)
that has pursued the policy advocated by Mr. March currently has half
the rate of the consumption of cannabis as Canada, and has seen an
85-per-cent decrease in the rate of "hard" drug use among young people
in the last decade (according to Dutch and Canadian government
surveys). Simply put, the Dutch have eliminated the "black market"
that provides cannabis, and too often in our country heroin and other
drugs.

Chris Donald
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