READER POSES POT DILEMMA

Dear editor,

I think Ben Perlini and Russell Barth had some excellent points in
their letters about legalizing marijuana.

It would reduce a lot of illegal trafficking and organized crime. I
don't smoke marijuana myself, but I would like to see it legalized and
sold in stores the same way cigarettes are to produce more revenue for
the government that would benefit all citizens.

My only concern is that, even though government grown marijuana would
not contain some of the scary additives marijuana bought from a dealer
might (such as crystal meth or cocaine), but would all the horrible
chemicals that are added to tobacco be added to marijuana?

Tobacco, straight off the farm, is really not all that harmful, until
all the ammonia, formaldehyde, tar and nicotine. It is these additives
that kill people, not the tobacco itself.

Who's to say we could even trust the government to grow pot for us? A
person might be better off buying pot from a dealer who grows it in
his or her home.

Keisha Korhonen

Port Hardy