Pubdate: Wed, 27 Feb 2008
Source: Burlington Post (CN ON)
Copyright: 2008 Burlington Post
Contact:  http://www.burlingtonpost.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1528
Author: Brent Playfoot
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n209/a08.html

TRAMPLING ON OUR RIGHTS

So let me see if I understand Alison Myrden's letter in the Feb. 22 Post.

Is she really asking that because she is a cannabis smoker that the 
rest of the world is supposed to give up their rights because these 
medicine takers require their hourly toke? Am I reading this correctly?

Am I supposed to hold my breath as I pass by a legal cannabis smoker 
(so as not to breathe in secondhand smoke) outside my favourite 
family restaurant? Did you read the story about Mr Gibson, where he 
states that his friends built him a shed so his own family does not 
have to see him or smell it? Or was I the only one that read that part?

I am sorry that you and a few other individuals have some sort of 
reason for having a legal licence to smoke cannabis, but please do 
not ask that I give up my non-smoking rights to have to accommodate 
you and the others. There was no discrimination here. Mr. Gibson was 
asked to move away because of complaints of customers. Mr. Gibson 
should be complying with the request, not trying to turn the issue 
into a human rights case. This is one individual that was asked to 
move farther away because paying customers were complaining about one 
individual that was infringing on the rights of so many others. Maybe 
the patrons of Gator Ted's should be bringing a human rights hearing 
against Mr. Gibson and the rest of the legal cannabis smokers in Canada.

Let's have cooler heads prevail, work out an agreement between the 
parties involved and move on.

Brent Playfoot,

Burlington
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