I just don't understand it. Will someone please educate me? How can our judicial system spend so much time harassing medical marijuana patients, yet allow someone to drive on our streets with 14 DUIs? And he was not driving drunk 14 times. He was caught 14 times! That means he was driving drunk more times than that. This individual was more of a mortal threat to the general public than any medical marijuana patient will ever be. We were lucky with this guy; he didn't kill anyone. But it makes me wonder: How many more people like this guy are still out there? Andy Young Hilo [end]
For me, hard drugs and their illegal distribution and sale in Medicine Hat is a conundrum. Who is the buyer? As a retired manufacturing executive, I understand all aspects of a "normal business" including how extremely careful one must be if manufacturing and marketing a legitimate food or drug product. Before they hit their market, illegal hard drugs pass through a chain of handlers, all strictly profit motivated, with no regard for hygiene or product safety. We're talking about a product that is manufactured on the sneak, distributed on the sneak, sold on the sneak, bought on the sneak and used on the sneak. The end users willingly and unbelievably buy an expensive product that is to be taken into their bodies with no idea of where the stuff has been. [continues 195 words]
Dear Editor, Regarding the front page news of last weeks Mercury, "Operation Zeus." It is my opinion; and I dare say, the opinion of many others, that this has been blown well out of proportion for the amount and type of drug seized. Yes I was one of the unlucky sods who was 'dobbed in' (to the righteous souls responsible, I hope you can now sleep peacefully at night!). I believe that smoking marijuana has not changed who I am and what I have achieved in my adult life, having made a success from my career as a hairdresser and the previous owner of a successful hairdressing salon. [continues 64 words]
