I am alarmed at the ongoing disparity in Hong Kong's law enforcement approach.
On the one hand government policy seeks to deprive its citizens of the choice of buying harmless hemp-based cosmetics (because of a supposed danger of exposure to minute traces of the same mind-expanding chemicals present in marijuana), whilst giving no protection or legal recourse whatever to those same taxpaying citizens who are daily exposed, without choice, not only to dangerous levels of pollution, but also to harmful solvent chemicals.
In effect, at some sites where construction work is taking place, in a busy working environment frequented by office workers, individuals are subject to passive solvent abuse.
Can't the government department responsible for drug law enforcement, in its eagerness to protect the public from the dangers of drugs, redirect its zeal away from the innocuous publicity stunt of Anita Roddick (of Body Shop) and think seriously about reining in those who would really put the public health at risk? STEFAN CUCOS North Point
