COMPASSION CLUB CARTOON INAPPROPRIATE

Dear editor,

The Record's very sensible, compassionate and well-considered
editorial of March 4, Only Pharmacy in Town, and Dolly Smith's
informative letter, Club Showing Compassion, on the same page, were
followed March 9 by an Under the Glacier cartoon which both
trivialized the issue of medical marijuana and demeaned those in need
of it.

The cartoon indulged a cheap-shot stereotype of the "pothead" as a
contemptible druggie and lame-brained lout of the "trailer park
biker-boy" variety.

Not only was the cartoon inappropriate and insulting, the cartoonist's
dialogue balloon got it wrong; the Compassion Club is not "closed."
Not yet, anyway.

Walter Driscoll

Comox Valley