DON'T SET OUR LAWS BY U.S. POLICY

RE "POT policy is smoke and mirrors" (March 13): I see Lorrie Goldstein is
closely following the Toronto Sun corporate line that it is pointless to
legalize the drug until the U.S. does because criminals will still be
involved in the export of the weed. Isn't it possible that if we legalize
marijuana, some of those erstwhile criminals will convert their illicit
business into a hugely profitable paragon of corporate governance as Samuel
Bronfman did with his Distillers Corporation when alcohol was legal here in
Canada but illegal in the U.S.? In any event, since when do we allow
America a veto power over domestic social policy?

Alan Randell

Victoria, B.C.

(We don't, but why encourage crime on this side of the border?)