Pubdate: Tue, 21 Jan 2014
Source: Taunton Daily Gazette (MA)
Copyright: 2014 Stan White
Contact:  http://www.tauntongazette.com
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2750
Author: Stan White
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v14/n063/a02.html

NOT A GOOD REASON TO KEEP POT ILLEGAL

This letter is in response to your Jan. 18 editorial, "Pot
prohibition's final years?". Colorado re-legalized cannabis
(marijuana) over a year ago and the sky hasn't fallen. Cannabis
prohibitionists are responsible for underground markets, cartels,
increased hard drug addiction rates, contempt for drug laws, eroded
constitutional rights, loss of freedom, escalated prison populations,
corrupt politicians, race discrimination, prohibition of free American
farmers from growing hemp (even though Communist Chinese farmers grow
it), trillions of dollars in wasted tax dollars, deceiving citizens,
and the list is growing faster than the plant itself. The sooner
America re-legalizes cannabis, the sooner the sky will stop falling
in.

A sane or moral argument to continue caging or punishing responsible
adults for using cannabis simply doesn't exist.

Stan White
Dillon, Colo. 
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