CANNABIS PROHIBITION NOT THE ANSWER

Dear Editor:

I strongly agree with the article entitled Drug awareness a 'parental
issue' (Airdrie Echo, Oct. 30). The original prohibition on a national
scale was worse than the booze prohibition and the sequel, now, on an
international scale, is worse.

Caging humans for using cannabis (marijuana) is so mean-spirited, repulsive
and sinful that it should be asked if cannabis prohibitionists really even
comprehend that they're admitting a desire to cage humans for using a plant.

It defies integrity and rationality to cage humans for using cannabis and
to cage sick citizens using cannabis for relief of pain is vile, morbid and
spiteful for a civilization in the year 2002. Police, defunct of this
elementary truth, compromise their trust in citizens when supporting the
policy of caging humans for using a plant. At the very minimum, North
America must relegalize cannabis, especially when you consider the worst
side effects of cannabis are police-inflicted.

Biblically, medically and recreationally, many citizens use cannabis
responsibly and are tired of various forms of government discrimination and
deceit directed toward them. Police should not be part of that deceit.

Stan White

Dillon, Colo.