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Newshawk: Kirk
Votes: 0
Pubdate: Fri, 21 Mar 2014
Source: Oklahoma Gazette (OK)
Copyright: 2014 Gazette Media, Inc.
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Website: http://www.okgazette.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/317
Author: Kirk Muse
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v14/n149/a04.html
WHY IS THIS STILL ILLEGAL?
I'm writing about Tim Farley's story "Prohibition, not pot, is the
problem" ( Feb. 10, Oklahoma Gazette online ).
I'd like to add that the cannabis legalization issue is not whether
cannabis is completely safe for everybody, including children and adolescents.
It is not. The issue is freedom of choice for adults. Children have
died from eating peanuts and peanut butter, but we don't cage peanut
growers, sellers or consumers.
And the voters of Colorado and Washington state have decided that we
should not cage cannabis growers, sellers or consumers.
Oklahoma adults have the freedom of choice of whether or not to
consume legal alcohol. Shouldn't they have the same freedom of choice
regarding legal cannabis?
- - Kirk Muse
Mesa, Arizona
MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom