DRUGS: POT SMOKERS' LIVES RUINED

Dear Editor,

Aided in no small measure by uncritical news stories such as yours [Pot
busted, Feb. 1, Langley Advance News], our government continues to oversee
a brutal pogrom designed to distract our attention from more important
issues by ruining the lives of the innocent few who ingest or sell certain
drugs.

Please, don't insult my intelligence by insisting the drug war is there to
protect users from harmful drugs. Banning a drug harms users (adulterated
drugs and jail time) and non-users (murder and mayhem on our streets) much
more than if the drug were freely and legally available. And if that were
the reason, why didn't we ban alcohol and tobacco, too?

Alan Randell,
Victoria