. . . OR VERY INNOCENT, DEPENDING ON ONE'S VIEW

Editor, The News:

Re: Derrick Dick's letter of June 27 ('Cops stake high ground,' Viewpoint):

What a crock!

Cannabis prohibition is based on the fabrications of zero tolerance; it
goes downhill from there. Marijuana grow operators and dealers are a
product of that prohibition.

About three weeks ago, Dr. Patrick Smith of the Centre for Addiction and
Mental Health told the Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs that: `If
we discovered three drugs today and they were alcohol, tobacco and
marijuana, there isn't an expert in the country who would recommend that
marijuana be the one that is banned based on individual and societal harm.'

Cannabis prohibition is the most diabolical bit of systemic discrimination
that Canada has ever adopted.

Moral high ground it is not!

Wayne Phillips

Hamilton, Ont.