MULRONEY'S OUT OF TOUCH

BEN MULRONEY'S account of his friend turned stoner is amusing, but not good
analysis (Sept. 8). He should have spent his dad's money on a science-based
education or gone into politics like the old man.

He wrote: "As a freshman, I had a friend with a near-photographic memory and
a desire to experiment with anything and everything. Four years later, he
was nearly two years away from graduation, he had a world-class collection
of bongs and he frequently forgot why he had even walked into a room.
Deadly? Definitely not. Benign? Ask my friend. He's probably still in
school, trying to graduate."

With respect, anyone who has spent time on a university campus in the past
few years has gleaned enough empirical data to wholly refute his claim.

Aaron Lagadyn

Ladysmith, B.C.

(Maybe Ben needs to hang out with some of our senators)