POT NOT SO BAD

THE EDITOR:

Those folks back in the 1920s were right you know. Alcohol is a much
greater evil than marijuana ever could be. Consider all the news stories
that have been printed about drunk drivers, drunk hooligans, drunk husbands
beating on their wives etc., etc., ad nauseum.

I know people who are sweet, kind and thoughtful until they get a few
drinks under their belts. They then turn into vicious animals. Tobacco is
also a much worse blight for society than reefer could possibly be. House,
car and forest fires are part of the legacy of smoking cigarettes.

How many people have died in their beds because they just absolutely had to
have one more butt? (I have seen no record of a house or car fire caused by
a doobie. Joints and roaches don't smoulder which is why the user must keep
relighting them).

Some fires may have been caused by growing operations, but if weed was
legal, then there would be no growing operations to burn.

To say that marijuana is a gateway to hard drugs is ridiculous. One could
extend that argument, albeit a short trip from the sublime to the
ridiculous, that - since most people use toothpaste, toothpaste must be a
gateway drug too.

The biggest lie of them all is that pot is addictive. Pot is a
recreational, mild drug that could result in a psychological dependancy for
some, but not for everyone.

There is nothing in marijuana that makes it addictive as tobacco, alcohol,
coffee, heroin, cocaine and a whole gamut of pain killers.

Rodney N. Cockroft

Abbotsford