MEDICAL MARIJUANA GROW-OPS OKAY FOR KIDS

The Editor,

Re: "Are the kids all right?" News, Dec. 21, 2007.

You editorial asks "What kind of a parent would subject toddlers to
the dangers of living in a marijuana grow operation?"

Why, a parent who has a chronic medical condition and has a licence
from Health Canada to set up a so-called "grow-op."

Health Canada licenses these so-called "grow-ops" for critically and
chronically ill Canadians from coast to coast to coast, and their
regulations say nothing about children.

When set up properly, home indoor gardens are just as safe as hot
tubs.

Indoor growing, done properly, is perfectly safe, but a well-crafted
propaganda campaign on behalf of anti-marijuana groups (basically just
the police, those experts on medical issues) seems to have infiltrated
the national conversation and the media.

TIM MEEHAN

Ottawa, Ont.