REEFER MADNESS

Re: "New drug law allows seizure of houses", May 15.

It is very sad to see Canada following the same Reefer Madness lunacy
that prevails in the United States. The narcs here promised years ago
that they would only confiscate the property of "kingpins", but now we
have narcs taking cars for a single joint! Homes and farms of ordinary
people are taken for a few marijuana plants. They said that they would
never do that here, but they lied!

Canada is well on its way by allowing an innocent party's property
to be confiscated.

Major crime problems in the U.S. are made worse by our brain-dead drug
war. Once the cops begin robbing citizens of their property on petty
drug crimes, robbery, burglary, rape and the things we ususally think of
as crimes tend to be ignored. After all, you can't confiscate a
murderer's house the way you can when a little pot is found.

The next time you wait an hour for an emergency police response, console
yourself with the thought that some dangerous pot smoker is being
pursued instead.

Ralph Givens

San Francisco