MORE POT PROPAGANDA

This letter is in regards to article titled "Esquimalt and Saanich police
bust grow op," (Esquimalt News, Sept. 18).

Another day, another warmed over police press release served up by the
media to persuade us to support drug prohibition, a government program
intended to distract attention from government failures in other ares.

As far as marijuana goes, this crusade is getting a bit silly.

Marijuana is, for all intents and purposes, a legal drug. The people have
spoken.

Millions of hard-working and productive Americans and Canadians use the
stuff including some, I don1t doubt, on your staff.

The police should be told to stop wasting their time and our money pulling
up plants and instead do what we pay them to do: protect us from dangerous
criminals.

We must all be nuts to tolerate a law that punishes people for what they
choose to ingest into their own bodies. Surely no government has the right
to punish anyone for ingesting anything, however harmful - including heroin
and other "hard" drugs.

Tell me, Mr. editor, would you call the cops if your children were using
illegal drugs? No? Then why do you report on the drug war as if it is
normal to jail people because of what they choose to ingest into their own
bodies? Please wise up and begin reporting on drug prohibition as the
fascist-like horror it is.

Alan Randell, Knutsford Place