POT SPECULATIONS

To the editor:

Re: High Markup On Feds' Medicinal Pot, The Daily News, April 16.

If your doctor prescribed a drug to help you deal with a disease you
have just been diagnosed with, and the drug did not work, you would
expect the appropriate action to follow. However, when it comes to Tom
MacMullen in Prospect Bay, he is left with no options.

What exactly is going on here, you ask. For all we know, the people
growing the pot could be selling leaves and twigs to the medicinal
smoker, and keeping the bud for themselves.

The bags MacMullen had been getting could very well have been like
that - hence, the raunchy taste.

As far as costs go, it's unacceptable. Weed can be expensive. But by
the sound of it, I think this company is screwing everyone over. They
aren't breaking the bank growing this stuff.

Maybe these people need to be taught how to grow marijuana. Or better
yet, let MacMullen have a government grant to grow some real stuff.

ADAM BOUTILIER

Dartmouth