POT LAWS NEED TO GROW OP

It wasn't a crazed man with a gun who killed four RCMP officers in Alberta
last week (NOW, March 10-16). It was antiquated pot laws and out-of-control
gun culture from south of the border creeping north. If weed weren't
illegal, those cops wouldn't have been there in the first place. Instead,
it would have been a bylaw enforcement officer delivering a fine for an
unlicensed grow op. Getting tough with grow ops, as Anne McLellan promises
to do, will only raise the stakes and make those who operate them more
violent and more desperate.

Mitch Cutler

Toronto