About the story "This Bud's For You," (July 22).

I'd like to add that if one out of every eight Canadians smoke
marijuana, that also means that seven out of eight don't. It seems to
me that the seven out of eight Canadians who don't smoke marijuana
would be very much in favour of taxing marijuana. Those who do smoke
marijuana would prefer buying their marijuana from legal, regulated
and taxed sources, as opposed to criminals -- who may sell other, much
more dangerous drugs like heroin, crack cocaine or methamphetamine,
and who offer free samples to their marijuana customers.

Kirk Muse

(A Senate committee recommended just that.)