REPLACING JAIL WITH FINES

Dear Editor.

So lemme get this straight... they are replacing jail with fines for 15g or
less... AND spending $240 million on a program to get kids to stop smoking
it... unless they're going to crack down like meter maids and issue fines
left and right to pay for this, I smell another Liberal boondoggle here
(and some fat ad contracts for someone to develop the "Say no to pot"
campaign)...

In some twisted way I think this could actually reduce consumption, because
if the police isn't arresting kids because no one feels getting caught
smoking a J is worth a criminal record, then they'll probably start giving
the fines, because anyone who walks around with 15 joints can afford the
$100 (or their daddy can).

So long as we still say doing drugs is wrong and against the law, I'm fine
with the fines. The goal is curbing consumption, and if the fines can do
that, (whereas jail has failed), then great. If the cops aren't giving out
the fines even, well, it's another Liberal waste of money and time.

The ad campaign idea though just cracks me up... what, Groupaction's first
quarter results were a little low?

Yours truly, Jonathan Colford Toronto, ON