LETTER OF THE WEEK

LEGALIZE AND REGULATE ALL DRUGS

By Alison Myrden

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 enforcement officers looking for more answers. Give
us a chance. What we are doing now is not working.

Alison Myrden

Pubdate: Sun, 23 Nov 2008

Source: Edmonton Sun (CN AB)

Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n1031/a07.html