BETTER THINGS TO DO

Thank God the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a Charter challenge of our
country's insanely expensive, unpopular, and futile laws against marijuana,
because all the police PR stunts and tactical squad home-invasions in the
world will have no effect whatsoever on the price, availability, or usage
rates of such a popular recreational and medicinal herb.

For years now, poll after poll has shown that the vast majority of
Canadians favor either legalizing or decriminalizing marijuana, and no
wonder: It isn't rocket science to figure out that with the police
advertising nation-wide that these home "grow-ops" produce millions of
dollars worth of marijuana with no education or experience required,
operating "grow-ops" will remain a rapid-growth industry, like distilling
alcohol was back in the 1920s.

Despite dire predictions to the contrary by police, society did not fall
apart when alcohol prohibition was just ended one day, and the Dutch,
Swiss, most of Europe actually, have already proven society will not suffer
when we finally wake up and end marijuana prohibition.

Instead of police PR stunts whose only benefit is free advertising for
every hydroponic supply store in the country, we need to legalize,
regulate, control, and most of all, demand proof-of-age. The police have
better things to do with their time than keep us safe from greedy home
gardeners.

Chris Donald

(Depends on who those "home gardeners" are)