DISPENSARY RAID SADISTIC

Dear Editor,

I like to think that people want to do what's best and are merely
ignorant about marijuana.

But I'm beginning to think some people are either so brainwashed by
decades of propaganda, are willfully ignorant for political
convenience, or are morally irregular people.

There is something sadistic and borderline psychopathic about stealing
medicine from sick people.

Randy Caine has done everything right. He has worked as closely with
the RCMP and local authorities as he possibly can, and is doing it for
ill people.

He is providing a service that Health Canada has failed to provide,
despite multiple court rulings stating that they must provide access
to marijuana as medicine or risk violating Charter rights.

The dispensary system is more convenient for ill people and provides
the type of symptom-specific strain selection needed to treat
conditions as wide-ranging as migraine headaches, MS, cancer, and
bipolar disorder.

I hope the RCMP and the politicians who support these raids feel proud
of themselves.

They continue to lock up the young people and Native peoples of this
country disproportionately, and continue to raid dispensaries to steal
medicine from ill people.

All that is to "save us" from a substance that was initially banned
based on racist fear-mongering before we understood any of the science
behind it.

Every "danger" initially assumed, from - gasp - your white daughter
dating a nonwhite man (an actual argument in favour of prohibition at
the time), to the gateway drug theory, to physical addiction, has been
debunked.

But thank god the police are stealing it from cancer patients. I feel
much safer.

I know I was at risk of a cancer patient stealing my car stereo for
pot money any day now.

Travis Erbacher

Langley