HAPPY ON HASH

Re: "Legal drugs impairing drivers, study finds," Feb. 28.

I am 45 and smoked a great deal of hash when I was a teenager. Hash was
considered far superior to marijuana and more accessible; the best hash was
laced with opium or heroin. Marijuana was looked upon with scorn -- who
would want a paltry imitation of the hard stuff?

I quit when I was about 20, but my friends continue to smoke. Most of them
don't drink, but smoking is just a way of unwinding, rather than taking a
cocktail. My late mother grew up in Holland and was extremely tolerant of
legalization of marijuana. Her assumption was that if marijuana, hashish
and prostitution were legal, the government would gain insofar as revenue
was concerned, and we would have a happier, more open population.

I agree with her. Let's let the government legalize soft drugs and
prostitution, make a profit and make many people happy.

Nancy Charbonneau

Calgary