The fact that cocaine and impaired driving charges against Rahim Jaffer were recently dropped by the courts (he pleaded guilty to careless driving and was fined $500), proves there is a dangerous double standard within Conservative values. Jaffer led the Harper Government's effort to block decriminalization of marijuana, a drug with proven medicinal properties.
While I find pot dulls the mind, it is not as addictive as cocaine is, especially when smoked as crack. Marijuana can be grown for private use while cocaine must be imported by criminals from Columbia via Mexico, where someone dies hourly in the struggle to supply rich young men like Jaffer. At the same time the Harper government is pushing for free trade with Columbia, a country with gold in the ground and drug-financed militias in the forest. Time to change direction.
Larry MacKillop
Nanton, Alta.
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