Pubdate: Wed, 08 Jan 2014
Source: Anniston Star (AL)
Copyright: 2014 Consolidated Publishing
Contact:  http://www.annistonstar.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/923
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v14/n011/a05.html
Author: Stan White

NO SANE REASON TO BAN CANNABIS

Re "'Reefer Madness,' revisited" (Phillip Tutor column, Jan. 2): Star 
commentary editor Phillip Tutor is correct pointing out that "tobacco 
isn't marijuana. Marijuana isn't meth. Alcohol (a drug, by my 
definition) isn't cocaine."

In fact, cannabis is safer than all those substances, although the 
government labels cannabis as a Schedule I substance alongside 
heroin, while methamphetamine and cocaine are only Schedule II substances.

Cigarettes kill more than 1,000 Americans daily. In more than 5,000 
years of documented use, the God-given plant (see the first page of 
the Bible) cannabis hasn't killed one person. That's safety on a 
biblical scale.

A sane reason to continue cannabis prohibition doesn't exist.

Stan White

Dillon, Colo.
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