Pubdate: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 Source: Lethbridge Herald (CN AB) Copyright: 2010 The Lethbridge Herald Contact: http://www.lethbridgeherald.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/239 Author: Geoffey Capp Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10/n445/a03.html TOLERANCE OF VIEWPOINTS GOES BOTH WAYS I am in shock that Tamara Cartwright (June 12 Letter to the Editor) would make the brazen assumption that only her point of view is valid for being printed in the newspaper. There is documented medical evidence that marijuana is harmful, particularly to the brain and body of developing children and adolescents. Legalizing marijuana would only serve to make it more accessible. We already have trouble keeping cigarettes and alcohol away from under-age people; logically, we would also have trouble keeping this marijuana weed away from those under whatever age is set as the minimum for legal use. Marijuana must remain a controlled substance, with our objective being to remove it, as well as the entrenched product of tobacco, from any status as socially acceptable for use. We have tobacco use down to less than one person in five, and it will, in time, disappear from any mainstream appearance. Marijuana must also be expunged, as the future of our children depends on discrediting marijuana and other drugs. I am tolerant of the expressing of pro-marijuana viewpoints, but the opposite view is equally valid to be expressed, and Tamara Cartwright should be tolerant of it. Geoffrey Capp Lethbridge - --- MAP posted-by: Jo-D