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8 • WATERLOO CHRONICLE • Th ursday, September 14, 2017 Serving your community since 1856 WATERLOO CHRONICLE 630 Riverbend Drive, Unit 104 Kitchener, Ontario N2K 3S2 519-579-7166 Fax: 519-579-2029 www.waterloochronicle.ca Donna LUELO PUBLISHER EDITORIAL Bob VRBANAC EDITOR ext. 2305 bvrbanac@waterloochronicle.ca Adam JACKSON REPORTER ext. 2308 Twitter: @KWAdamJ ajackson@waterloochronicle.ca Samantha BEATTIE REPORTER ext. 2229 Twitter: @Samantha_KB sambeattie@waterloochronicle.ca Joy STRUTHERS REPORTER ext. 2308 Twitter:@struthersjoy jstruthers@waterloochronicle.ca ADVERTISING 519-579-7166 SALES LEAD Michelle STEVENS, ext. 2232 mstevens@waterloochronicle.ca SALES REPRESENTATIVE Cassandra DELLOW, ext. 2306 cdellow@waterloochronicle.ca SALES REPRESENTATIVE Aaron MURRAY, ext. 2304 amurray@kitchenerpost.ca SALES REPRESENTATIVE Paula GARCEAU, ext. 2303 pgarceu@kitchenerpost.ca CLASSIFIED 1-800-263-6480 CIRCULATION 519-894-3000 Canadian Publications Mail Sales Publication Agreement Number 40050478 International Standard Serial Number ASSN 0832-3410 Audited Circulation: 31,292 The Waterloo Chronicle is published each Thursday by Metroland Media Group Ltd. 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Names will not be withheld. We reserve the right to edit, condense or reject any contribution for brevity or legal purposes. Letters may be submitted by email to editorial@water- loochronicle.ca. Suburban Newspapers of America VIEWPOINT WATERLOO CHRONICLE CHRONICLE EDITORIAL Dare I admit that I was recent ly browsing through the terribly saucy online, "Urban Diction- ary", whose glossary of words and phrases can make me blush even as I sit alone at my laptop. Seemingly every word in the English language has an alternate meaning in this dic- tionary. But be forewarned: Urban Dictionary can be crude and you'll tiptoe around words you use every day that you now realize have various meanings. However I did find some- thing that resonated with me. "Waterluian: A driving manoeuver that when turn- ing right or left onto a two lane street you drift into the far lane instead of staying in the closest lane. Named after the city of Waterloo where the fre- quency of this idiotic manoeu- ver is rampant." Now maybe the authors of this definition were referring to another Waterloo, Waterloo Iowa say. Nonetheless the defini- tion is fitting for our fine city where heading out into traffi c has become a risk that I'm not always willing to take. A visiting relative, who lives in New York City and has travelled the world, recently commented that the drivers in Waterloo are among the worst she's experienced in her life. So I found some veracity in that defi nition. I do love unusual diction- aries that don't just give us factual information but some- times the unspoken truth. Like for example those found in the cynical and inventive Devil's Dictionary written by Ambrose Bierce in 1911. Here you will fi nd an inter- esting collection of bold-faced honesty and paradoxes that some of us have probably con- sidered. My favourite might be this defi nition: "Handkerchief: A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble offices about the face and especially service- able at funerals to conceal the lack of tears." When you love language, it's fun to play with words. It was in Brave New Words: A Language Lover's Guide to the 21st Century by Kerry Maxwell that I discovered I am fashion- ably out of step carrying my old leather pony-express-style handbag when the latest trend is to carry a "baguette" purse. I also learned that I am a "grief tourist" and I have dreams of becoming a "gueril- la gardener," I just didn't know there was a term for it. Perhaps the most inter- esting dictionary of all is the silent, wordless one that can- not be captured on the page; the meaningful gestures between two people, the stare, the argument about shampoo that isn't about shampoo but refl ects a long standing rivalry. Th e indirect ways we com- municate, the signs we give and interpret as we become fully engaged in a relation- ship… because aren't we always translating? � e best de� nition of a Waterluian Ontario's Liberal government released it's plan last week as to how it will handle the rollout of pot legalization in the province, and it looks a lot like the same model we've seen for the LCBO stores. In fact, the LCBO will be responsible for its rollout and con- trol and management in the province maintaining the virtual monopoly that already exists with booze. In the future, you must buy all your legal marijuana from an LCBO-controlled outlet, with up to 80 stores in all of Ontar- io licensed to do so. You can also purchase it from a govern- ment run website that will deliver it to the door, as long as the legal recipient can sign for the product. It might have made sense to just sell it out of existing stores instead of creating a parallel infrastructure, but the province has decided that booze and pot won't mix. It is one of the many moral stands the province says it's taking in managing this rollout to make sure the drug doesn't end up in the hands of minors, and people with an aversion to drugs won't have to go to the same place for their liquor. Th ey government says it has a track record for responsible alcohol sales and will implement the same measures, includ- ing strict photo ID for pot purchases. But the province missed the opportunity to show some moral leadership while setting the Age of Majority for marijua- na purchases. Th ey will allow users as young as 19 purchase pot even though major health studies in the U.S. and Canada say it has a detrimental eff ect on the developing brain. Ontario could have set the age limit to buy marijuana at 25, which experts argue is a better cutoff to prevent that long term damage. At the very least the province should have made the cutoff 21 to fi rmly take it out of the teenage years. Despite the assertions the province will control access to minors, having the laws mirror the liquor laws only make them rife for abuse. No moral authority PEN & PAPER LESLIE MORGENSON