COPS SHOULD STOP POLICING POT

To the editor:

I am upset with police who oppose rational drug-law reform (Halifax Police
Say Marijuana Leads To Harsher Drugs, The Daily News, Sept. 6).

I'm not surprised; the idea of legalizing cannabis has sparked a flame in
local law-enforcement agencies. The police agencies stand the most to lose,
since they justify much of their funding upon the persecution of a plant.

Shame on them, for they imply that they don't make the laws; they just
enforce them, and imply that if you don't like the laws, change them.

While police are in favour of caging humans for using a plant, I request
North American citizens resist that farce.

Instead of Halifax Regional Police teaching kids that marijuana is one of
the gateway drugs, a substance that often leads people to try harder drugs,
they should try teaching the truth. All studies, including the recent
Canadian Senate study, indicate otherwise. Officers (of morality) should be
crime officers, doing what they are paid to do, which is protect citizens.

Stan White

Dillon, Colo.