Pubdate: Fri, 21 Feb 2014
Source: Oklahoman, The (OK)
Copyright: 2014 The Oklahoma Publishing Co.
Contact: http://www.newsok.com/voices/guidelines
Website: http://newsok.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/318
Author: Stan White
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v14/n160/a01.html
Page: 7A

MASSIVE POLICY FAILURE

Regarding "Seeking pot legalization, hundreds gather at rally" (News,
Feb. 3): Mark Woodward, a spokesman for the Oklahoma Bureau of
Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control, uses the original Prohibition
to support perpetuating the sequel. The truth is that alcohol
prohibition was an enormous failure on a national scale and now the
failure of the sequel is even larger on an international scale. This
is more than an inconvenient truth. It's a threat to law enforcement
agencies whose payrolls depend in part on continuing one of the worst
policy failures in American history. A sane or moral argument to
continue caging responsible adults who use marijuana doesn't exist.

Stan White, Dillon, Colo.
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