Pubdate: Mon, 24 Feb 2014
Source: New Haven Register (CT)
Copyright: 2014 New Haven Register
Contact:  http://www.nhregister.com
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/292
Author: Stan White
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v14/n128/a05.html

POT PROHIBITION A LAW THAT SHOULD END IMMEDIATELY

Prohibitionist government and politicians orchestrated cannabis 
(marijuana) prohibition and citizens don't care how it ends 
(Editorial: States Should Determine Own Pot Laws, Feb. 5, 2014), as 
long as it is immediately. It's one of America's worst policy 
failures in history. The plant never should have been labeled a 
Schedule I substance alongside heroin while methamphetamine and 
cocaine are only Schedule II substances.

There are numerous options for government to end this discredited 
devil law before the end of the day. Citizens know cannabis 
prohibition is discredited and could end today and have demonstrated 
they're not waiting on snail pace measures to get the job done.

A sane or moral argument for allowing cannabis prohibition to exist 
any further doesn't exist. In the meantime, it's inappropriate to 
criticize U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder or President Barack Obama 
for bringing a reasonable end to the quagmire, as long as they finish the job.

- - Stan White Dillon, Colo.
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