LETTER 'POMPOUS, ARROGANT'

EDITOR,

Re. "Bill enjoyed broad-based support," Letters, Dec.
17.

What a pompous, smug and arrogant letter John Weston, your local MP,
sent in an attempt to persuade us to support his bill to ratchet up
the failing war on drugs. Weston submits not a scintilla of evidence
that the legislation will do anything to reduce the harm done to users
and non-users alike by illegal drugs. His entire justification is that
the bill is supported by all the various elites whose careers and
paycheques depend on the continuation of drug prohibition, the most
disastrous social policy legislation ever inflicted upon the Canadian
people.

The only way, THE ONLY WAY, to ameliorate the harm of illegal drugs is
to legalize them

Alan Randell

Victoria