Letter of the Day

THE TREATMENT OF KRIEGER IS CRIMINAL

The Sun deserves a standing ovation for publishing Licia Corbella's
June 9 column "Leave Grant Krieger alone."

The treatment of Krieger by Calgary police is criminal.

The 86-year-old Henry Adams is living proof and a ringing endorsement
of the benefits of cannabis.

I resent my tax dollars paying police and courts to prosecute people
who use marijuana as a medicine.

Recently, 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."

Then legislation which empowers the prohibition of cannabis can only
be a reprehensible blunder.

Since there is no reason, substantial or justifiable, for the
continuation of cannabis prohibition, the time has arrived for the
Canadian government to embark on a separate path from our American
neighbour on this issue.

Wayne Phillips

(There's a big difference between legitimizing medical marijuana and
legalizing the drug.)