POT CRACKDOWN: ARE POLICE TOO LAX OR TOO PUNITIVE?

Wishy-Washy Stand On Dangerous Drug

Canada does have a "...relatively lax treatment of grow-op criminals"
("Marijuana link irks U.S.," Journal, March 8). This is especially evident
since the killer of four RCMP officers was growing marijuana in Mayerthorpe.

I am a first-year college student, and I am appalled that the politicians
are not getting off their rich backsides to lay down the law like they
should. I can hardly get on the bus to the campus without overhearing a
high school student talking about how high he was on the previous night.
Some days I feel like reaching out and slapping one of these
marijuana-smoking students upside the head, and I am hardly older than them!

Marijuana, as a hallucinogenic drug, is just as deadly as drinking and
driving. Too many students are smoking marijuana and they are getting away
with it because the government is slapping them on the wrist as punishment.

Politicians should stop wasting time and make the decision now.
Non-medicinal marijuana is either illegal or legal, it shouldn't be any
harder than that.

BJ T. Frost

Edmonton