KEEPING POT ILLEGAL WILL KEEP JAILS FULL

Editor:

Re: Federal candidates have their say in Osoyoos

By promising to jail more pot smokers and offering mandatory six-month
jail terms for growing even one marijuana plant, Stephen Harper wants
to turn our 50,000 inmate population into a 65,000-to-70,000 inmate
population.

This will take billions of dollars to accomplish.

Instead of regulating marijuana and generating $3 billion in annual
tax revenue, he wants to spend billions more every year building jails
and filling them with pot users.

How, exactly, is that going to help the economy?

By creating jobs for lawyers, cops, gangsters and jail-builders, I
guess.

It will certainly make a dent in the "affordable housing"
problem.

Russell Barth

Federally Licensed Medical Marijuana User/ Patients Against Ignorance and
Discrimination on Cannabis

Nepean, Ont.