POT BUSINESS IS DANGEROUS

Re: 'We lead the way in killings,' Times, Nov. 21.

We appreciated this article, whose second page highlighted marijuana as the
cause for a lot of killings in Abbotsford. What a high cost of a drug that
some people would like to see legalized.

Clearly, the price of pot isn't only the loss of health, nor the danger of
users moving to more costly and deadly drugs. The price is human lives lost
because of a turf war of an "industry" which is largely tolerated by
Canadian society unwilling to change from the wrong kind of tolerance.

So-called tolerance would change laws to accommodate the transgressors, but
drag the feet in enforcing the law that should stop them.

And what about other hidden costs? Like that of lives injured or lost
because of drowsy drivers who have to have their pot - and the drag on our
health system? Or students who will never really excel because pot is
cutting into their thinking abilities. And possibly future politicians who
will mismanage our country because of a subtle, almost imperceptible
"something" that hinders them from being able to size up situations and
make the right kind of decisions.

Reminds us of what wise old Solomon observed over two millennia ago:

"Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore
the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil" [Proverbs 8:11].

More power to our law enforcers from the judges down to the police officers.

W. T. Laskowski, Abbotsford