Dear Editor, Re: "School trustee needs history lesson," Letters, Nov. 17. I fully support Mayor Brodie and councillors plus trustees Ho and Hamaguchi and other like-minded persons with their pot legalization concerns. May I suggest pot proponents substitute ingesting tablets identified as DDD as an alternative to all available recreational drugs. The history of failed reliance on education to avoid the use of recreational drugs and abuse of prescription drugs has been demonstrated by the overdose death tragedy. Surely, serious and meaningful consequences must be applied in addition to education. Why do we assess financial consequences for illegal parking, speeding, distracted driving, impaired driving, etc., while ignoring this available significant deterrence and financial resource asset? [continues 110 words]
According to your Feb.11 story, "Vietnamese gangs linked to growing of marijuana," police estimate there are 7,000 marijuana grow operations in the Lower Mainland. The provincial government is in a serious deficit position. How much revenue has been generated by assessing fines of $5,000 against tenants who operate the grow operations in a rental home contrary to the Criminal Code and the Residential Tenancy Act? Taxpayers lose on every occasion when this is not done. [end]
