Pubdate: Wed, 08 Feb 2012
Source: Glenwood Springs Post Independent (CO)
Copyright: 2012 Glenwood Springs Post Independent
Contact: http://drugsense.org/url/ys97xJAX
Website: http://www.postindependent.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/821
Author: Howard Wooldridge
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v12/n103/a06.html

LEGALIZE POT AND GET RID OF BLACK MARKET

Writing from my perspective as a retired street cop, the Feb. 5 
article by Rebecca Jones, "Valley teen: Marijuana is widely 
available," demonstrated the need to treat marijuana like alcohol, 
that is, legal, regulated and taxed. Kids are not selling beer and 
cigarettes in school, just an illegal drug like marijuana.

Drug policies modeled after alcohol prohibition have given rise to a 
youth-oriented black market. Illegal drug dealers don't ask for 
identification for age, but they do recruit minors immune to adult 
sentences. So much for protecting the children.

No teen should have the job option to sell drugs. To help our kids, 
we should repeal this marijuana prohibition today.

Howard Wooldridge

Golden
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