Pubdate: Fri, 07 Dec 2007
Source: Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI)
Copyright: 2007 Eau Claire Press
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Author: Gerald Rippley

TOBACCO A BIGGER DANGER THAN POT

We should release all Wisconsin jails inmates who have been convicted 
of possessing, selling or growing marijuana. What they have done is 
nowhere near as bad as what the tobacco growers and cigarette 
companies have done: addicting smokers to nicotine, hooking them on a 
terrible habit which has caused the deaths of millions of people.

Tobacco growers are subsidized by our government, but marijuana 
growers are put in jail. We should let our farmers grow the stuff and 
sell it at a high premium. That would increase farm income and also 
relieve some of the overcrowding problems in our jails.

GERALD RIPPLEY

Arkansaw
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