MANUFACTURING CRIMINALS

Re: Feds eye ban on obscure herb (Feb. 22). This government sure loves
to subsidize gangsters and endanger the public. Banning salvia will do
for it what a ban has done for marijuana: make it more potent,
contaminated, expensive and unregulated.

It will be far easier for your kids to get salvia, because dealers
never ask for ID, and instead of taxpaying shop-owners selling it, we
will have it controlled by teens and gangsters.

I have no doubt that this is by design. This government is not trying
to protect Canadians. They are trying to manufacture inmates, using
Canadians as the raw materials. How else can they justify building 12
new jails when crime is at a 33-year low?

RUSSELL BARTH

Nepean, Ont.