Pubdate: Thu, 03 Jan 2013
Source: USA Today (US)
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Author: Edward Lumas
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THE REASONS TO LEGALIZE MARIJUANA

just keep coming. If cannabis were legal nationwide, the incentive to 
use national land as pot farms would evaporate.

Don't forget that many states already have decriminalized it and/or 
approved its use for medicinal purposes or legalized it outright. In 
addition, our prisons are overflowing with bottom-rung dealers and 
users (supported by our taxes); the environment is being degraded 
from uncontrolled growing; and, most important, the government's "War 
on Drugs" is as big a failure as Prohibition was. Tax marijuana and 
regulate it as we do alcohol.

Edward Lumas

Grand Rapids, Mich.
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