PITY THE PROHIBITIONISTS

Your item by Pablo Fernandez in the Aug. 27 Sun on the numbers of
grow-ops in the city contained a statement attributed to Ald. Ric
McIver stating that when someone smokes a joint, they are buying
bullets for gangsters. Please! Let us be adults here and admit the
turf these gangsters are fighting over would not exist but for
ill-advised prohibition laws, which create a lucrative black market.
To blame the herb cannabis for the wreckage caused by its prohibition
is another case of prohibitionists' pretzel logic. Only by ignoring
truth and logic can these poor, misguided souls justify their
position. Pity them, for they are pitiful.

Bruce Symington

(Are you saying that if you make crime legal, you no longer have a
crime problem?)