BALDERDASH

To the editor:

Re: Students learn realities of drug abuse (April 25 edition of the Times)

How about talking to kids about the realities of prohibition? About
how prohibition is more of a danger to users and to society than
legalized drugs ever could be?

Or about how prohibition makes "dangerous" drugs more available to
them than healthy lunches?

Just once I would love to see a group of school kids get a visit from
someone like me--a drug law reform advocate and former pharmaceutical
addict who has managed to improve his life dramatically with clean
diet and the responsible use of cannabis.

Or my wife, an epileptic who was having 60 seizures a year but who
had only three last year because of cannabis.

But then, the school propaganda only spins one way: "Street drugs
bad, doctor drugs good. Do as we say, not as we do."

Luckily most kids are smart enough not to believe prohibitionist balderdash.

(Signed),

Russell Barth

Medical marijuana licence holder

Ottawa, Ont.