REPEAL BAD LAWS

RE "PHARMACY cannabis in store for B.C.?" (March 22): I have always
considered "medical marijuana" as the fatal compromise because it empowers
the therapeutic state and enfeebles the individual. Descriptions like
"relatively safe and non-toxic" are driven home when medical comparison is
made to the dangers of table salt. Doctors regularly advise their customers
to avoid salt because of its hazardous potential.

Medical marijuana activists appeal to our compassion to remove the ill from
the drug war battlefield. They are fighting a bad cause in bad faith.
Compromise will simply prolong the drug war resulting in many more
casualties.

Alcohol prohibition was repealed because citizens were ready to reclaim
their fundamental right to drink, a right that, in principle, does not
differ from the right to use any substance. Either we have the right to
poison and kill ourselves with food, alcohol, and drugs or we don't. I have
always argued for individual liberty, personal responsibility, the free
market and rule of law. The way to deal with bad laws is by repealing them,
not by multiplying them.

Chris Buors

Marijuana Party of Canada

Prairie Region Co-ordinator

Winnipeg

(We aren't legal experts, but as far as we know there's no right to sell,
buy or use stuff that can kill you)