Pubdate: Mon, 27 Jan 2014
Source: Delaware County Daily Times (PA)
Copyright: 2014 The Daily Times
Contact:  http://www.delcotimes.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1284
Author: Howard Wooldridge

IT'S TIME TO LEGALIZE MARIJUANA

To the Times: Speaking as a retired detective, I agree with the 
president on marijuana. Indeed, in my street-cop experience, booze is 
much more dangerous than marijuana, for both drinkers and those 
around them. Let's keep in mind that policy should be based on more 
than how dangerous something is.

Every teen in America has a job option to sell marijuana ... and 
nearly a million are employed in selling drugs and they carry guns. 
Every day kids are shot and shot dead because of their "employment." 
Moreover, pedophiles are not caught as often as possible, as my 
profession spends about 10,000,000 hours searching and arresting plant.

Policymaking should not be so simple as "this is bad, so let's make 
it illegal."

HOWARD "COWBOY" WOOLDRIDGE

Co-Founder of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition Drug Policy Specialist

Adamstown, MD
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