Hang Onto Your Roach Clip:

THE POT DEBATE IS HEATING UP

Re: Why Marijuana Shouldn't Be Legal, letter to the editor, Jan. 16.

Letter-writer Roger Freihoff wants to "push thegovernment to protect
Canadians" and he calls for continued marijuana prohibition because he
"wasted half a decade of [his] youth 'self-medicating' with marijuana."

No government has the resources to prevent personal, self-destructive
behaviour done in the privacy of one's home. As a conservative and a
former police officer, I would like to see a cannabis policy based on
personal responsibility. That would allow those in my former
profession to focus on real public safety threats, like drunk drivers
and child predators.

Howard J. Wooldridge, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
(www.leap.cc),Washington, D.C.