Dear Editor,
The use of marijuana for recreational purposes cannot be a “good” thing. That should not be a basis for its decriminalization or legalization.
The issue is whether criminalization of the drug, given the enormous violence associated with the ‘policing’ by criminals of its supply, combined with the corruption facilitated by the sheer enormity of the profits arising therefrom, is or is not a greater societal evil than decriminalization or legalization. The evidence is overwhelming that criminalization produces the greater evil.
Yours faithfully,
Romain Pitt
