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DRUG PROGRAMS TELL MARIJUANA LIES

Another reason to re-legalize the relatively safe, socially acceptable, God-given plant cannabis - marijuana - that doesn't get mentioned in the Feb.  18 Daily Forty-Niner editorial "Battling Marijuana Sends Our Money Up In Smoke" is that it will lower hard drug addiction rates.  Drug Abuse Resistance Education, or DARE, will have to stop brainwashing youth into believing lies, half-truths and propaganda concerning cannabis, which will lower deadly hard drug addiction rates.

How many citizens try cannabis and realize it's not nearly as harmful as taught in DARE-type government environments? Then they think other substances must not be so bad either, only to become addicted to deadly drugs.  The old lessons provided make cannabis out to be among the worst substances in the world, even though it's never killed a single person.

The federal government even classifies cannabis as a Schedule I substance along with heroin, while methamphetamine and cocaine are only Schedule II substances.  For the health and welfare of America's children and adults, that message absolutely must change.

Regulated cannabis sales would make it so citizens who purchase cannabis would not come into contact with people who often also sell hard drugs, which would lower hard drug addiction rates, too.

Stan White

Dillon, Colo.