POLICE STATE INCHES CLOSER WITH RECENT COURT RULING CRIMINALIZING MARIJUANA

Goderich Signal-Star - Dear Editor:

(Re Court ruling on drugs good news, Jan. 7)

You appear ecstatic that Parliament is now supreme when it comes to
criminalizing the dietary choices of Canadians.

That body is now free to authorize the imprisonment of those who choose to
ingest or sell substances it deems harmful to society.

Given the resources at its commend to "prove" that this or that substance
is indeed harmful to self or society, who can doubt that the way is now
clear for the state to ban the possession or "trafficking" of alcohol,
tobacco, coffee, sugar, chocolate, milk, tea, licorice, etc., etc.?

Remember the good old days when the media were valiant allies of the people
in our fight against the overwhelming power of the state to interfere
unnecessarily with the minutia of our daily lives?

Those days are clearly gone for ever. The police state inches ever closer.

Alan Randell

Victoria, BC