Pubdate: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 Source: Montreal Gazette (CN QU) Copyright: 2003 The Gazette, a division of Southam Inc. Contact: http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/274 Author: Robert Saint Amour MARIJUANA SMOKERS AREN'T CRIMINALS And so the Supreme Court of Canada has spoken, accepting the arguments of federal prosecutors that there is "no free-standing right to get stoned" in Canada (Editorial, Dec. 24, "Supreme Court right on pot"). While our legislators commonly get drunk and endanger lives, like our own Hawaiian Punched Premier Gordon Campbell, or Alberta's Happy Hour Klein, whose idea of fighting poverty is to throw rocks at it, it is illegal to sit back and enjoy a non-violent, calming joint in the privacy of your own home. Given the choice, I'll take the "munchies" over driving around drunk and looking for fights. Am I to tell my children that their father is a criminal, my friends are criminals and their friends are criminals? All because our government is too dumb to see, let alone read, the writing on the wall? When a law is ignored or broken by the majority of the people, the law must go. Robert Saint Amour Surge Narrows, B. C. - --- MAP posted-by: Beth Wehrman