'DRUGGED DRIVING' PROFILING DOESN'T MAKE ROADS SAFER

The science regarding marijuana and driving is inconclusive at best,
but because of the lobbying power of anti-drug zealots, the police now
have new tools to profile people under the age of 30, people of colour
and people with non-regulation hairstyles.

This "drugged driving" stuff will clog our courts, increase the number
of people with criminal records and do nothing at all to make roads
safer.

It is nothing but a balderdash police cash grab based on wild
exaggerations with no scientific data to back them up.

The numbers simply do not support the police's assertions that pot is
a major threat to road safety.

(As a member of the Federally Licensed Medical Marijuana User Patients
Against Ignorance and Discrimination on Cannabis organization), I
think the public is being duped once again.

Russell Barth

Napean, Ont.