TARGET THE DEALERS

THE proposed law reforms surrounding the recreational usage of marijuana
should be upheld and sentences for propagating and selling should be
increased in line with other more dangerous drugs.

Recently, I attended the funeral of a suicide victim who became mentally
ill after smoking marijuana.

If you ring the drug hotline they will tell you that there are more deaths
from alcohol and cigarettes than marijuana, ignoring the fact that more
people drink or smoke and that it is more socially accepted. Most people
are unaware of the dangers of marijuana.

The media has anti-smoking campaigns showing cancerous lungs and
drink-driving/domestic violence campaigns showing our children banged up in
car wrecks and women with black eyes. But when it comes to pot no such
campaign exists. Why? Because until it happens to a politicians's child
it's not a priority.

M. SIMMS

Ballajura