[420 Girl]

Dear editor:

The courts are now processing the "criminal"charge against Holy Smoke Culture Shop.

As we know cases are sometimes switched a city location because a hostile environment surrounds them.

It can be said that, to a certain degree, the City of Nelson, by recently upping its cooperation with police in enforcement of break up cannabis grow operations, has worked to mobilize opinion against the growth and sale of cannabis.

This, in spite of the fact that cannabis production and distribution generates local jobs and revenues.

It's sad to see the City of Nelson furnishing such support to suppression of our local cannabis commerce.

It's time it sees the outlawing and prosecution of cannabis growth and sale as a waste of taxpayer's money, a waste of time, a waste of personnel, a waste of resources, and a waste of "air time."

Into what should the City of Nelson put that money and that energy into instead?

How about Nelson's whopping housing crisis?

Or care for the mentally disabled, or the crying need for added daycare resources?

The list goes on.

Ignorance can be reversed.

Some day, some politicians and some police will have ( to ) look into the mirror and have to accept that they pointlessly persecuted individuals, causing them much anguish and suffering.

And like the old adage goes, "what goes around, comes around."

Hopefully the judge handling this case lives and thinks on higher ground than the City of Nelson presently occupies at this time

Unjust laws are unjust.

Phil Mader,

Nelson

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