Pubdate: Tue, 26 May 2009 Source: Medicine Hat News (CN AB) Copyright: 2009 Alberta Newspaper Group, Inc. Contact: http://www.medicinehatnews.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1833 Author: Russell Barth Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n556/a01.html DRUG BUYERS COME FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE - TO EASE PAIN Re: "Who are these dimwitted drug buyers?" (Letters, May 22 News). "Who is buying this dirty, contaminated trash?" People from all walks of life, and every tax bracket. When one considers that junk food kills many times more Canadians each year than all illegal drugs combined, the use of illegal or adulterated drugs hardly seems like a big issue to a lot of people. When one considers that the companies who provide our food, fuel, and electricity are damaging the planet and society at a rate many times the rate of any damage caused by the illicit drug market, the fact that you have to buy drugs from gangsters seems like a pretty small issue. When one considers the alarming levels of pollution in our air, water, soil, food, and bodies - using adulterated drugs seems like even less of an issue. When one considers how effectively - albeit temporarily - these drugs soothe the pain of being alive in the world, the fact that they are adulterated seems like a tiny issue. Russell Barth Nepean, Ont. (The writer is a federally licensed medical marijuana user and a member of the organization Patients Against Ignorance and Discrimination on Cannabis (PAIDOC) www.paidoc.org ) - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom