COUNCIL TAKING THE WRONG ROAD

Editor's Note: It should be noted the selling of marihuanna seeds is
perfectly legal. Once an individual plants the seeds and begins to care for
the young plants (at which point THC is formed), the person can then be
charged with cultivating an illegal substance, but the sale and possession
of seeds is legal.

To the editor,

The other day, I drove down the main street of our community and had
my four-year-old bring up a question, "Mommy, why do those people
have a funny Canadian Flag in their window?" to which I, dumbfounded,
answered, "I don't know."

After finding out that this so-called business sells drug seeds and
paraphernalia etc. I have a sick feeling in my stomach. Overwhelming
rage set in as I asked myself "Is this the community we want to raise
our children in? Does our community take pride in this?"

Children live all around this establishment, walk by it and are bussed
by it five days a week. If my four-year-old noticed a defaced Canadian
flag, what are older children getting exposed to?

Legal, they tell me this place is, but whatever happened to family
values, morals, a conscience and encouraging the good to come out in
people? Putting people on the sewage path of addiction is not right,
ask any medical doctor, psychologist, mother, father, grandparent,
teacher, or any human being for that matter.

After rage, concern set in. I actually don't want to judge these
people and drive them out of town to go somewhere else with the same
business. I pray that they will wake up one morning, shake their heads
and ask themselves "What good are we giving back to our community? Is
our community proud of us and our business? Are we helping to raise
healthy children in our community? Are we leading our children and
others (children/adults) down the right path?"

Please, I beg you, as a mother raising children at a time when divorce
is high, bullying is still alive in our schools and our children are
attacked by evil from all sides. We can't protect them from
everything, but please don't flaunt drugs right in front of them too.

Please do what is right morally. It's hard to believe, but then again,
it really isn't, that so called adults support the very thing we know
is at the root of all evil. "Drugs are everywhere", I'm casually told.
Does that make it right? I'm starting to get the feeling that this
community and many others are "normalizing" the use of illegal drugs.

I'm scared, no, terrified, for our future generation. I never want to
explain to another child why it's OK for an adult to disrespect a
Canadian flag and promote drug use and it's not OK for them to. We as
parents and citizens of this great community cannot turn a blind eye
to this subject anymore.

Laurie Convay

Tiverton