Pubdate: Mon, 10 Mar 2003
Source: Maclean's Magazine (Canada)
Copyright: 2003 Maclean Hunter Publishing Ltd.
Contact:  http://www.macleans.ca/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/253
Author: Howard J. Wooldridge
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n315/a09.html

JUST SAY YES

Pot shots Brian Bergman's thoughts on how to approach cannabis were on 
target ("Just say 'yes,'" Essay, March 3). Should police spend their time 
chasing marijuana, when drunk drivers are 10,000 times more dangerous than 
the average user? In my 15 years as a police officer, I handled some 2,000 
accidents, not one of which involved a "stoned" driver. I never went to one 
call for service generated by the use of cannabis. Cannabis is not a 
societal problem and rarely a personal one.

- -- Howard J. Wooldridge, Austin, Tex.
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