GROWERS FORCED INSIDE BY SHAMEFUL LAWS

Your headline -- "Infant, toddler found in Calgary grow-op"(March 20) -- is
clearly intended to demonize growers who are forced by our shameful
prohibition policies to grow marijuana indoors instead of in greenhouses
and fields in plain view as, say, tomatoes and roses are.

In common with most of our media, you hardly ever present an even-handed,
informative account of a drug bust that includes the pros and cons of our
drug prohibition laws that have clearly failed to put even the smallest
dent in the illegal drug trade, opting instead to push the government and
police line all the way. Your rich and powerful corporate owners will be
pleased indeed at your continued support of the police as they
enthusiastically utilize our shameful drug laws to persecute the poor,
especially those who belong to a non-white minority. And I don't doubt that
in the event the charges of child endangerment are either dropped or found
wanting, that information will not be found in the pages of your publication.

Alan Randell

Victoria, B.C.