Pubdate: Tue, 07 Jan 2014
Source: Palm Beach Post, The (FL)
Copyright: 2014 Stan White
Contact:  http://www.palmbeachpost.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/333
Author: Stan White

POT PROHIBITION IS PART OF PROBLEM

I strongly disagree with Ruth Marcus' Sunday column, "Smoke obscures
dangers; Legalizing pot is a bad idea, primarily for what it will do
to kids." It's time to stop using ridiculous and often discredited
excuses regarding kids and cannabis (marijuana) in order to cage
responsible adults for using the relatively safe God-given plant.

Further, claiming "society will not be better off " legalizing
cannabis is silly. Cannabis prohibition is responsible for increased
hard-drug addiction rates, contempt for drug laws, eroded
constitutional rights, escalated prison populations, corrupt
politicians, race discrimination, prohibiting free American farmers
from growing hemp (even though communist Chinese farmers grow it), and
costs trillions of dollars. The sooner America ends cannabis
prohibition the sooner the sky will stop falling in.

STAN WHITE Dillon, Colo. 
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