POLICE FACE TOUGH TASK WEEDING OUT LEGAL POT

Dear Editor:

The RCMP have reportedly been involved with two medical marijuana
busts in the space of two weeks.

On May 17, as reported in the North Shore News, an RCMP officer busted
a medicinal user based on "a tip relating to marijuana use" (NV RCMP
Seize Medical Marijuana, June 3). On the same day, Friday, the
Vancouver Sun broke another story of the RCMP arresting three men,
growers of federal medical marijuana, for producing more pot than allowed.

The RCMP are facing a difficult task.

With all this medicinal marijuana floating about, how is the public
supposed to go about distinguishing the legal variety from the illegal
variety, if the public is going to be the ears and eyes of the police?

Is medicinal marijuana coloured like tax-free farm gasoline? Does
medicinal marijuana smell different from illegal marijuana? Can the
medicinal variety be openly displayed in a restaurant, as if it were a
prescription pill being added to coffee, or does it have to be kept
out of sight of children and others?

Just asking.

Dave Gosse

North Vancouver