Pubdate: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 Source: Express (Nelson, CN BC) Copyright: 2008 Kootenay Express Communication Corp. Contact: http://www.expressnews.ca/letters.html Website: http://www.expressnews.ca Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2339 Author: John Rowell Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n907/a07.html CONCERN ABOUT JUDGE'S COMMENTS IN HOLY SMOKE TRIAL Dear editor. In your report of the Holy Smoke trial ("Holy Smoke4"guilty,Oct.1), the defendants claimed that they provided customers with safe marijuana that could also be used as medicine. In response, Judge Donald Sperry said that the undercover police who were sold marijuana there wanted it for neither purpose. The response by the judge is irrelevant. By analogy, people buy condoms mainly to protect themselves against unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. That some people buy them to use as water containers has no bearing on whether condoms should be sold or not. The motive of the buyer is irrelevant to the argument of the defence that Holy Smoke has provided a community service. John Rowell Nelson - --- MAP posted-by: Larry Seguin