VICE CAN DO A LOT OF HARM

Dear Sir:

In answer to the four letters in the Sept. 26 Carillon by politicians, I
just want to answer Chris Buors of Winnipeg.

In your fourth paragraph you write: "In vice, the very essence of crime,
and harming of another individual or their property-is wanting," quoted
from an essay by Spooner written in 1875.

Mr Buors, if you want to go to the history books, why don't you go back
2,500 years and read what a very wise king had to say about another kind of
substance that affects your thinking? King Solomon, in Proverbs 23:29-35,
wrote about alcohol which has the same effects on a human's thinking as
cannabis.

Why, when you mention vices, didn't you mention alcohol? It is a vice that
has been used thousands of years. I have seen the damage it has done. I
remember an accident 25 years ago in Steinbach when a man who had been
drinking all day went through a red light, striking a small car with three
recently-graduated nurses inside. One died, one had a broken pelvis, arm
and ribs and one had broken ribs poking into her lungs and a crushed knee.

The last one, my niece, has always had problems with her knee and it has
affected her nursing and homemaking careers.

In my opinion, people having too much marijuana would have the same problem
driving as those drinking alcohol and driving. But a breathalyzer wouldn't
work (with marijuana), therefore creating more accidents.

So Mr Buors, you want your natural rights to all drugs restored? But I want
my life protected by the RCMP highway patrols who create safer highways.

Bill Giesbrecht

Mitchell, MB