Pubdate: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 Source: Vancouver Sun (CN BC) Copyright: 2005 The Vancouver Sun Contact: http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/477 Author: Herman J. van Norden Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/pot.htm (Cannabis) POT DIDN'T STAND IN THE WAY OF SUCCESS Many of today's crop of lawyers, judges, law-enforcers, legislators and criminologists grew up and went to college in the hippie times. (Alas, I was born too early, in 1920.) We can assume that many of them smoked pot in their formative years and, since they're apparently successful in life, came away with a belief in its harmlessness. Any judge with this experience would feel like a hypocrite if he or she handed out severe sentences. Herman J. van Norden Vancouver - --- MAP posted-by: Josh