LEGALIZE AND REGULATE ALL DRUGS

At the end of Mindelle Jacobs's Nov. 14 column, she asks rhetorically,
"Why have a (marijuana) law at all?" Good question. Why IS the use of
cannabis prohibited? More than 10 million people have smoked cannabis
in the last year in Canada. Not ONE died. Ill people use it as
medicine, factories make clothes and rope out of it, people eat the
seeds, the flower and the leaves in cooking and baking and the stock
in tea. I DO have a problem when anyone serves time in jail or loses
their home due to any drug. Drugs are a health issue and should be
treated as such. As a retired law enforcement officer and a legal
cannabis patient, I say the answers are right here if you look.
Legalize and regulate all drugs and keep them out of the hands of the
criminal element and away from our children. We at LEAP (Law
Enforcement Against Prohibition) are a group of retired and
present-day law law enforcement officers looking for more answers.
Give us a chance. What we are doing now is not working.

Alison Myrden

(Eventually, common sense will prevail.)