LEGALIZE USE OF POT

Re: 'Work together against grow-ops,' Editorial, Nov. 12.

The only way society is ever going to get rid of grow-ops in
residential neighbourhoods is to legalize and regulate the growing of
marijuana. Pot grown in a commercial setting could be taxed and
growers would be more than willing to pay for electricity used. This
would also eliminate the criminal gangs and all of the alleged dangers
in growing.

Did the people who enjoyed a drink at a speakeasy during Prohibition
create the violence of the bootleggers or did an unjust law? I would
much prefer to buy my pot at the beer store, but I have never been
allowed to do so. It's time for society to stop telling people that
one drug is OK, but another less harmful is not.

Jason Le Clair