Pubdate: Mon, 10 Mar 2003
Source: Calgary Herald (CN AB)
Copyright: 2003 Calgary Herald
Contact:  http://www.canada.com/calgary/calgaryherald/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/66
Author: Nancy Charbonneau

HAPPY ON HASH

Re: "Legal drugs impairing drivers, study finds," Feb. 28.

I am 45 and smoked a great deal of hash when I was a teenager. Hash was 
considered far superior to marijuana and more accessible; the best hash was 
laced with opium or heroin. Marijuana was looked upon with scorn -- who 
would want a paltry imitation of the hard stuff?

I quit when I was about 20, but my friends continue to smoke. Most of them 
don't drink, but smoking is just a way of unwinding, rather than taking a 
cocktail. My late mother grew up in Holland and was extremely tolerant of 
legalization of marijuana. Her assumption was that if marijuana, hashish 
and prostitution were legal, the government would gain insofar as revenue 
was concerned, and we would have a happier, more open population.

I agree with her. Let's let the government legalize soft drugs and 
prostitution, make a profit and make many people happy.

Nancy Charbonneau

Calgary
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