Pubdate: Fri, 11 Mar 2016
Source: North Shore News (CN BC)
Copyright: 2016 North Shore News
Contact:  http://www.nsnews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/311
Author: Geoff Doty
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v16/n135/a08.html

STOP TAKING POT SHOTS AT LONSDALE POT SHOP

Dear Editor:

Re: LoLo Pot Shops Raise Parents' Concern, March 4 Front Page.

I am not a regular user nor an advocate, but I have to disagree with 
Mrs. Cruz and Mr. Brown's assessment of the hazards of the marijuana 
store near where children attend martial arts courses.

Mrs. Cruz says she saw a mother let her teenage daughter carry a 
brown bag out of the store. Maybe the woman suffers from seizures? 
How is this situation any different from Mrs. Cruz allowing her 
daughter to carry her prescription pain killers when leaving a 
pharmacy? Mrs. Cruz if you or a member or your family were stricken 
with cancer (mine has, hope yours doesn't) and needed marijuana to 
ease your suffering, would you prefer to buy your pot from "unstable" 
people behind the Champions studio?

Champions manager Connor Brown says that "you can definitely smell it 
(marijuana) more."

When Mr. Brown fills up his car with gasoline, surely his kids can 
smell the fumes? When they play outside in the school yard, they 
smell the diesel fumes from the school bus.

Surely when he takes his kids to McDonalds they are ingesting 
antibiotics? I could go on. I think marijuana fumes are the least of 
your concern.

What is more dangerous to the heath of our children is stereotyping 
about people who act or look a particular way.

C'mon folks, it's 2016.

Geoff Doty North Vancouver
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