POINTLESS PROHIBITION

When letter writer Linc Penner talks of Marc Emery selling "poison" he
obviously has no idea of how many people enjoy a toke now and again.

I'm not just talking about punk kids here. I know many "normal," fine,
upstanding citizens who have mortgages and families and jobs who still
enjoy having a puff here and there.

I'd bet there are people Penner knows and deals with regularly who
smoke but who would never admit it openly because of the ignorant
attitude of some toward the plant.

Prohibition does nothing but create a market for gangs and criminals
to work in, and we know all too well in Vancouver the favours the
gangs have done for us.

Nolan Gladu, Langley