Pubdate: Sun, 25 Mar 2001
Source: Halifax Daily News (CN NS)
Copyright: 2001 The Daily News.
Contact:  http://www.hfxnews.southam.ca/
Author: Mike Patriquen

ANTI-POT LETTER LUDICROUS

To the editor:

I am writing in response to the ludicrous letter to the editor I read in 
your paper (Visit Drug Rehab, Donham, The Sunday Daily News, March 
18).  The letter writer makes numerous satirical comments as to members of 
the professional communities engaging in drug taking at every opportunity 
when the prohibition laws are removed. How inane.

In comparison, alcohol has been legal for quite some time but I have never 
seen an airline pilot, attorney, physician, etc., get drunk on their work 
break merely because alcohol is legal.

If any members of these communities were to engage in drug use during 
working hours it would be due to their own psychological problems, not the 
legal availability of the substance in question. People such as this have 
no problem now obtaining the product on the black market and legal 
availability would not increase or decrease their own personal problems.

As well, drug lords would not become richer. The government would control 
the supply of product and enjoy the revenues streams from it. I feel Parker 
Barss Donham made an excellent, well-reasoned case in his column, and to 
print this drivel attacking his piece is a waste of your editorial space 
and your readers' time.

Mike Patriquen

Marijuana Party
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