Pubdate: Sun, 23 Nov 2003
Source: Halifax Herald (CN NS)
Copyright: 2003 The Halifax Herald Limited
Contact:  http://www.herald.ns.ca/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/180
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n1798/a08.html
Author: David d'Apollonia
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/decrim.htm (Decrim/Legalization)
Bookmark: http://mapinc.org/people/Jack+Layton (Layton, Jack)

STILTED VIEWPOINT

It doesn't surprise me that your negative editorial position (Hits and 
Misses, Nov. 16) regarding Jack Layton's endorsement of legal marijuana 
reflects a nauseating, asinine twiddling, so common to the politically 
bamboozled mindset of social conservatism.

Layton's Pot-TV interview was anything but a miss. The NDP will receive 
many votes in the next election as a result of honestly representing this 
important issue of reforming Canada's outdated and immoral marijuana laws, 
a.k.a. prohibition.

It's your stilted viewpoint that gets a brickbat for fulminating over Jack 
Layton's savvy political courage. And that's not even to mention the lame 
puns you torture your readers with. Have you no shame?

David d'Apollonia, Dollard Des Ormeaux, Que.
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