Pubdate: Mon, 30 Nov 2009
Source: Grand Forks Herald (ND)
Copyright: 2009 Grand Forks Herald
Contact: http://drugsense.org/url/PmdVQo7l
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/513
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n1064/a02.html
Author: Susan Thorpe

TIME TO ADMIT THAT PROHIBITION HAS FAILED

Columnist George Will has the audacity to criticize medical marijuana 
laws and clinics in Colorado and California as hypocritical ("Drop 
'medical' from medical pot laws," column, Page D2, Nov.  29)?

Read Charles Bowden's "Down by the River" to understand the obscene 
effects that prohibition and the failed War on Drugs have had on our 
communities.

It doesn't take a genius to know that if you legalize drugs, the drug 
cartels' business will dry up overnight and the incarceration and 
violence tearing our communities apart will stop.

Anyone who wants drugs has easy access to them already.  Pretending 
otherwise is hypocritical in the extreme.

Susan Thorpe

Tucson, Ariz.
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