Pubdate: Wed, 22 Apr 2015
Source: Winnipeg Sun (CN MB)
Copyright: 2015 Canoe Limited Partnership
Contact: http://www.winnipegsun.com/letter-to-editor
Website: http://www.winnipegsun.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/503
Author: Joshua Wells
Page: 8
Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor.

CONTROL 4/20

If you're going to make marijuana legal for one day, why would you
hold it at the Legislative building? I really don't care that people
smoke marijuana and I really don't care if it's legalized or
decriminalized. Let's face it, people are going to do it one way or
another. People do it, but it should be the exact same as alcohol and
only be allowed to be consumed in the comforts of your home or at a
place that is licensed for it. It makes Winnipeg look trashy, with a
bunch of people sitting around red-eyed and lazy. There are children
that go to this, most parents don't even know their 12 to 17 year olds
are there. If you held this "event" in a more controlled environment,
not in front of the Legislative building it would be better because
you could ID people and not allow someone's child to smoke weed in
public where something bad could happen to them.

Joshua Wells

(Trying to force these folks into a "controlled environment" would be
a little like herding cats.)
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MAP posted-by: Matt