MORE IMPORTANT ISSUES THAN WORRYING ABOUT POT

The federal government's move on the decriminalization of marijuana is a
little puzzling. With all the issues facing Canada and Canadians today, I
fail to see the urgency with this legislation.

Let's see, we don't need to fund the military, health care and some are
living in absolute poverty, but let's put a priority on people who choose
to medicate themselves from reality. I think we need to put things in
perspective; those who use drugs do so by choice.

It must be nice to insulate oneself and escape into a cloud of fairy dust
with such an expensive habit, while there are those eating from trash cans.
How about legalizing everything. I mean we wouldn't want to get in the way
of a person's right to destroy themselves.

Specialists in the addictions field state that a person stops maturing at
the age they begin using substances. Now, how old are you? Societies have
come to a peculiar state when we selfishly need to escape from the very
world we live in. And, yes I have heard the argument comparing alcohol and
marijuana, but people who use the one substance, usually use the other,
too. The comparison is hypocritical and self-serving.

I know, I must sound like a partner for a drug-free Canada, but I'm not. I
just feel there are more pressing issues for this nation than escapism and
self-indulgence.

Rob Cheshire

Windsor