MOST WANT LEGAL POT

Editor: Re: Randy White applauds drug policy shifts (The Times, April 23).

Recent polls show that more than 50 per cent of Canadians want outright legalization of marijuana and far more subscribe to the nebulous concept of decriminalization.

In B.C., support for legalization is 60 per cent and growing, so high that the provincial NDP has recently passed a resolution in favour of regulation and taxation.

Hopefully, Canada's flirtation with these undemocratic conservatives is merely an aberration caused by the federal sponsorship scandal, and we can get back to running a democracy when this pizza parliament goes to pieces in the next two years.

I would also like to remind citizens of B.C. that in our legal system, jury nullification has always been a tool available when laws do not reflect the will of the community. If you are called to jury duty in a marijuana trial, you have the power to ignore the judge, ignore the law and acquit.

This was how Canada's abortion laws were defeated. Juries refused to convict. The law fell and Parliament was forced to regulate. The circumstances are identical.

More more information, see the website that we operate at http:// www.juror.ca

Chuck Beyer, Port Alberni