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Votes: 0
Pubdate: Mon, 08 Jun 2009
Source: Press & Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton, NY)
Copyright: 2009 Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin
Contact: http://www.pressconnects.com/services/editorial/editor.shtml
Website: http://www.pressconnects.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/878
Author: Shaun Bowen
LEGALIZE MARIJUANA
In New York, we spend about $1 billion on marijuana enforcement, not
including long-term jailing. With a $13 billion budget gap, why not
save ourselves the money and shift to a legalization, regulation and
taxation policies similar to that of alcohol? There are also the
documented health benefits afforded to suffering AIDS and cancer
patients forced to go into a dangerous underground market to get what
many feel is their medicine. Luckily, New York is at least taking the
medicinal uses seriously, as shown by bills in the Assembly ( A0576 )
and Senate ( S. 4041-A ).
Contact your state legislators. Tell them we cannot afford current
marijuana laws, and urge them to support their respective bills. As a
person acquainted with two people suffering from cancer, I believe
it's a shame they cannot legally obtain a drug that has been shown to
improve the quality of life while they go through their treatments.
Shaun Bowen
Owego
MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom
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