Pubdate: Tue, 14 Jan 2014
Source: Baltimore Sun (MD)
Copyright: 2014 The Baltimore Sun Company
Contact:  http://www.baltimoresun.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/37
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v14/n029/a03.html
Author: Stan White

WANT TO BE TOUGH ON CRIME? LEGALIZE MARIJUANA

If Gov. Martin O'Malley is so tough on crime, he should end the 
prohibition on cannabis (marijuana) today ("Mike Miller, marijuana 
and the right side of history," Jan. 9),

Cannabis prohibition produces underground markets, cartels, increased 
hard-drug addiction rates, and contempt for drug laws. It also leads 
to eroded constitutional rights, loss of freedom, escalating prison 
populations, corrupt politicians, racial discrimination and trillions 
of dollars in wasted taxes, all of which are crimes.

And make no mistake: Caging humans for using what God says is good on 
the first page of the Bible is also a crime.

Stan White, Dillon, Colo.
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