THE JURY IS STILL OUT ON LEGALIZING POT

The following letters were received in response to The Sun's four
editorials about marijuana last week.

Thank you for a most intelligent and reasoned series of articles about the
history and future of cannabis prohibition. It is seldom that one sees
newspaper articles of this sort that do not echo the frightening mandatory
minimum sentencing, greater enforcement budget and liberal judiciary song
that is chanted by our neighbours who run the gulag to the south.

When Canadians who choose to ingest cannabis have the right to do in the
privacy of their own homes, and the right to grow their own supply, without
fear of doors being broken down, fines and possible incarceration, then we
can turn our attention to the problem of reducing the empowerment of
triads, gangs and for-profit grow-ops that is engendered by prohibition.

James D. Fanning

Head of Jeddore, N.S.