Halton Hills Newspapers

Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), March 5, 1970, p. 6

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A DAY FOR THINKING OF OTHERS IN THI MAIL Rud Editor Critic Disagrees Sees No Danger in Marijuana University of Guelph Onlano Dear Mr Editor I would like to deal with some total and partial iniccur on the subject that both you and Mr Whiting about In the February Issue of The Herald namely You might call this let ter if you wish Im Not With You In reference lo vour own editorial title Were With You My firs issue with edit and Mr Whiting col umn la that both of you say the public has been bombarded with of mart argument I would lay that the opposite been true ever since the mid 1930s use will Increase leading lo an informal policy like our present practice toward illegal in the handi of teems era selective and Ucal partial nonenforcement of the Ian Meanwhile and most disturbing of ill the two drugs moit widely abused and moit harmful to the Canadian people ait a whole alcohol and tobacco mil continue lo be largely ignored i hen was 1 thing But mien Met science s lack of clairvoyance justify present una laws It clearly don not No Including marijuana will ever be found to be totally harmless any It is ironic that the present pot laws are upheld chiefly by the generation and flout and condemned by the young for it la the aenior gen that should understand the issue moat clearly having lived in the time of alcohol prohibition They saw that an entire nation not just the and seller of liquor fered violenl moral and menial Hi from that particular out break of armed and rampant Puritanism They should cert remember that attempts lo legislate morality result only in widespread disrespect or the law new market new profit for gangsters In creased violence end such wholesale bribery and lion that the government itself become a eater object of contempt than the criminal You mention lint resident on the drug miction thcjl would be shocked mlo reality by the headline about the drug raid I suggest Mr lrlilnr tint you are still in ostrich on this question an ears have rnthed the and heard what has happened but whose arc still cover BIRTHDAY PARTY WITH A DIFFERENCE VJtir rig Brownies n La els are from tell Ann aid Jennifer Stafford They ere members of George I Pack winch up for nq Day when Brown everywhere devote the thought to their counterparts the world Th nkmg Da a alio the day Lord Baden Powell ns the birthday cupcakes and candles LETS PLAY BRIDGE It is si A tn a BY BILL con spade I- art West Mrs Mrs Sue Sill Jnd Mr and B hour Mrs lavlor Mrs Ted Smith and Bill Mrs Bob of being made Illegal United Stales close we heard a lot of mli and misinformation and arc still hearing a good deal of il from people and Mr Whiting The reason that vve hate obtained a little truth and factual relevance In the tat few years is because the use of marijuana and its effects on have increased to inch a large extent that a her of and other art people have been attra it into I and come up with some honest an i ally I Returning to editorial Because marijuana in such and Mr Whitings column an for so lone unfounded argument thai was not interest in both of spout forth is that search and the few who didi marijuana is a catling card to come up nlth results that seem narcotic addiction You to contradict the harmful i ion expert Well I I implied in the code could obtain twenty experts were certainly heard for my side of the argument for every on that Admitted there have been re Dr more pro legalisation Jm ttork min the world leading authority and prejudice Treating marijuana in a sane id rational presents no whereas hers of thr the invvird Ice stale I must an Ihe bureaucrat who cocktail in one hind arctte in the other and out that the moment Hon of pot inc is the jor problem our one that be solved raising the pcnsltv to ion for Ihe first death for the second DRAPER DOBIE CO MEMBERS THE TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE STOCK AND BOND BROKERS Your Nearest Branch Office Queens Square Building Brampton Phone Brampton or Milton and To rents Fast accurate quotations and service on any 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defeat when thr i the first three Crescent You that some people who announce that marijuana a narcotic would say that it should al tor that reason alone doubt that People do that marijuana is not a narcotic but this is breaking down one of the old mMhs It mavlaceo their be a small pari to the total hut it not Tlifc argument lhen elv moving I Does that prov and Mr paint lonship betwee nut that marijuana can prod i heroin uca a depend heroin addicts I agree but so can ah mother milk Th dolui one of on a lead on the foil tic hand rlli dealt with vulnerable in Mr lid Mrs Hetty anil Mr Campbell lie and lorn Warner and Cam Sine la r NORTH H A Q A J BRIDGE CLUB resulted WEST A J J J bridge dun lulled A Jrht Ml i i we perform lie it of On inn il the i By I showed decree if and priiram as offered inh rrfieshing hi Pith of r at s tine of ill YOU alp Up ne Inlally re lo see an audience of in match as a representation of a growing town of at least 1 1 SIKH I we hear thai llnre urn t anilhing do n 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the ace and lead til Mr Mrs thing world apples alarm clocks I would suggest that it would be very difficult to he more psjcholoji dependent on marijuana than are Mr Editor on the topics of education and youth in editorials You Whats green and grows and protects all your family Insurance from Stale Farm Life one State Farm Money Tree with special branch to shelter each member of your family- Insurance lor you your and each child One policy and one payment covers all of you And after two weeks of age new additions to your family are covered at no extra cost Stop in and get your State Farm growing Geo E Drumm Blvd 877 STATE FARM LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Canadian Hud Scarborough Ontario unlike tob acco is a mind duiR are wrong is also a mind altering drug The average straight adult consumes to mind altering drugs a day beginning with stimulant caffeine in cot fee lea or Coca Cola going on to include alcohol and nicotine often tranquilizer not monly a sleeping pill at night and sometimes an amphetamine the mormon to overcome the effects of the sedative en the evening before Marijuana lodav referred to by some as a mild psyched with the emphasis en mild Mr Whitings term liiLinogena synonym for would also be fed by moat scientists with the adjective mild word can he a good word for some people denoting peace unmn with God and the end of all neurotic hangups of man and a monster word to others such as denoting halluc insanity suicide and chaos Other prefer to call marijuana a sedative stimulant a teim which I like best that sounds paradoxical but is really quite logical be cause marijuana has much In common with alcohol and other sedatives and a certain to amphetamine other stimulants A In Is that many people lend to indiscri minately throw a lot of drugs into the same bag usually put ting LSD with marijuana and speed not far behind two drugs art totally different or is one of the few drugs along with her many young pedple have themselves been agairut LSD due to its predictable reactions MAY be a dangerous drug believe that it should he very controlled and not legalized for widespread use Marljuam does not hive a great number of benefits Thev have been sentimentalized but no more so than its supposedly harmful effects It is neither very good or very bad If does not come I believe that party a thing either Mr Whiting implies that turning on to marijuana even leads to dropouts from aoeiety You re way off base The real cause for drop ping out is the alienating char acler of our society not drugs Repressive family life mean schools pointless job bigotry war and Intolerance everywhere is what le are reacting against when they drop out If like reading studies Mr Editor one done recently by berg and Weil of Boston Unlv eraity that proved that both neophytes and Ions lime of marijuana did on some test for concentration and mental stability even while were on high doses Another study from Yale Univ showed that more man smokers were at the lop of the class than the bottom One aigumont that neither nor Mr presented but which I am sure others will mention is the argument Who knows this line goes In the future marijuana might he din covered by further research to have dangerous tide effects that haven been noted This argument of course unanswerable hut It applies equally well such diverse as diet pills and bubble gum One cannot prove that the future will not discover new on to heroin a casual alcohol and that of drank either aynthetle for NORTH END Bas Line Read Ont NOTICE Residents of The Township of Esquesing DOG TAGS to the Takeover of Assessment Dog Tags will no longer be available from the Assessor Dog censes and Tags are available at the Township Of No 1 Georgetown or by mail on of the requ red nformation and license fee Informal on red Sex and Breed of Dog LICENCE FEES ARE AS FOLLOWS MALE SECOND MALE 00 FEMALE 00 SECOND FEMALE 00 UNSEXED 00 SECOND FRENCH Treasurer The difference between worrisome and Education of Deaf is Explained to 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