Dear Editor:
RE: Delegates hope Centre Wellington will allow cannabis retail stores in township, Feb. 23.
There is presently a push by a person on county council regarding allowing a cannabis retail store to locate in Centre Wellington.
This is all merely profit orientated and totally disregards the amount of harm it would do to our local community. Some people are very good at rationalizing situations with statements like, “Well, children can get it already anyway,” but what is the point of making it any easier?
This councillor will not likely be available to help “pick up the pieces,” when things go terribly wrong and children become addicted and some even homeless and involved in criminal activity.
There is also an environmental factor involved here, concerning the fumes associated with cannabis. It would not take very long for the whole building block where the store was located to start smelling of the substance, which is quite obnoxious to most non-users.
Then, there are likely going to be break-ins and other “undesirable events” occurring and this is proving to be a fact, these days.
Persons that really do think that they need cannabis are surely able to navigate the existing supply system without involving Centre Wellington in this matter.
Malcolm McCulloch,
Fergus