Pubdate: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 Source: Garden Island (Lihue, HI) Copyright: 2010 Kauai Publishing Co. Contact: http://kauaiworld.com/forms/letters/ Website: http://kauaiworld.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/964 Author: Harry Boranian GOVERNMENT FAILURE Prohibition did not work with alcohol. It's not working with marijuana. The only fair solution is to treat marijuana abuse the same as alcohol abuse. If a person is driving a car after excessive marijuana use, he should be treated the same as a person disabled by excessive alcohol use or abuse of any other mind altering substance. I suspect that the pro-alcohol lobby is heavily involved in the fight against the decriminalizing of marijuana. We could sure empty a lot of jail cells if marijuana use was treated in the same way as alcohol use. Government inaction in this matter is another example of the failure of the best government that money can buy. Harry Boranian Lihu'e - --- MAP posted-by: Richard R Smith Jr