MISINFORMED PUBLIC

Re: "Is U.S. high on pot legalization?," May 12.

To quote columnist Mindy Jacobs "and our medical pot regulations are
so complex -- thanks to the constant tug of war between the
government and the courts over how the scheme should be run -- that
no one really has a clue how it's supposed to work." It should also
be noted that Health Canada (which manages the medical marijuana
licence department) has repeatedly violated court orders, and the
whole program has been ruled "unconstitutional" by at least four
judges. If the public knew what we Medical Marijuana Licence Holders
already know about the Health Canada fiasco, the tide of public
opinion would shift hard in favour of legalization. But public
opinion should not even factor into this discussion, because the
public is so miserably misinformed on this topic that their opinions
are useless. Legalizing marijuana is simply the right thing to do,
and all science and history supports this.

Russell Barth

(Public opinion, informed or not, always counts.)