Pubdate: Fri, 05 Feb 2016
Source: Peterborough This Week (CN ON)
Copyright: Metroland Printing, Publishing and Distributing
Contact:  http://www.mykawartha.com/peterborough-on/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1794
Author: Alan Randell
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v16/n072/a07.html

GRIEVING GRANDFATHER SHOULD LOBBY FOR DRUG LAW CHANGES

To the editor:

Re: Don't open the gateway of marijuana to harder drugs: bereaved 
grandfather

How sad that a grieving grandfather wants no changes to the law that
was in place when his grandson died.

You would think that grieving families such as his would demand that
the politicians make changes in the current situation to reduce or
eliminate such tragedies.

My son, Peter, died 23 years ago after ingesting some street heroin.

Since that awful day, my wife and I have been working hard to convince
our governments to put an end to the prohibition of certain drugs
because we believe that, just as the prohibition of alcohol poisoned
many users many years ago, the prohibition of other drugs does
likewise today.

Alan Randell

Victoria, B.C.
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