HEALTH-CARE SHOULD GO GREEN

Re: Drug costs eroding medicare, May 28.

If we were truly free in Canada, we could all grow a little cannabis.
Then we wouldn't need so many pills and syrups, we wouldn't need to
see doctors as often, and our health-care system would be under far
less strain.

Beyond that, legalizing, regulating, and taxing a commercial cannabis
market would save us about a $1-1.5 billion dollars every year, and
generate an estimated $3 billion in tax revenue. That could go a long
way to finance our struggling health-care system, but Layton would
never have the guts to say that publicly, because he is basically a
Grit with an orange tie.

Russell Barth

Ottawa

(All our problems would go up in smoke?)