Editor:
Re: Police facing variety of issues as feds move to legalize marijuana, Nov. 22
It’s good of Delta police Chief Neil Dubord to publicize the rising rate of fatal auto crashes and collisions involving potheads in Washington and Colorado where marijuana has been legal for years already. Time flies, especially when you’re high.
However, why does Dubord make the phony distinction between “drugs or alcohol” in his promise that impaired driving will continue to be a target for his officers “regardless of whether it is by drugs or alcohol?”
Alcohol is a drug, too. Alcohol became a drug sanctioned by law only because banning it caused our ancestors all of the problems that marijuana, heroin, the opioids and so on are causing today.
When booze was illegal, criminals sold it on the black market; sometimes what they sold was the slow poison we buy in licenced stores today. However, too often, they trafficked in more lethal forms of alcohol that killed you quickly or fried or blinded you for life.
As a way to reduce the mayhem, our great grandparents legalized the slower killing alcohols and maintained the regulation of industrial alcohols.
Dubord isn’t the only one who makes the phony distinction between drugs and alcohol. We all make it and I’m sure the booze lobby is pleased that we do.
After all, there’s aged wisdom in the old bartender’s question: “What’s your poison?”
Greg J. Edwards
