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Compassion Club cartoon inappropriate

The Record’s very sensible, compassionate and well-considered editorial of March 4, Only Pharmacy in Town, and Dolly Smith’s informative letter, Club Showing Compassion, on the same page, were followed March 9 by an Under the Glacier cartoon which both trivialized the issue of medical marijuana and demeaned those in need of it.

Dear editor,

The Record’s very sensible, compassionate and well-considered editorial of March 4, Only Pharmacy in Town, and Dolly Smith’s informative letter, Club Showing Compassion, on the same page, were followed March 9 by an Under the Glacier cartoon which both trivialized the issue of medical marijuana and demeaned those in need of it.

The cartoon indulged a cheap-shot stereotype of the “pothead” as a contemptible druggie and lame-brained lout of the “trailer park biker-boy” variety.

Not only was the cartoon inappropriate and insulting, the cartoonist’s dialogue balloon got it wrong; the Compassion Club is not “closed.” Not yet, anyway.

Walter Driscoll,

Comox Valley