BAD DRUG POLICY

The political winds of change are blowing, but it seems our government has
a hard time upholding a logical perspective on drugs, their usage and their
distribution.

A little while back, the federal government started making marijuana
available to patients with prescriptions. But when the Bloc Pot party
wanted to turn its campaign centre in Montreal into a cafe where marijuana
would be not sold but could smoked by users who brought it with them, the
law-enforcement agencies jumped on the occasion to make their political
statement and threaten any users with immediate arrest.

Your Sept. 16 article "Injection site set to open" shows a lack of
coherence in drug policy. Why would we endorse a centre where cocaine and
heroine could be used (followed by a smooth landing in the "chill room")
when soft drugs that are on the verge of being decriminalized aren't
permitted in a local cafe?

Jonathan D. Vairogs

Verdun