Pubdate: Fri, 24 Apr 2015
Source: Journal Standard, The (Freeport, IL)
Copyright: 2015 GateHouse Media, Inc.
Contact:  http://www.journalstandard.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3182
Author: Kirk Muse

WHY TREAT MARIJUANA USERS?

This is in response to "Low-level pot offenders in Rock River Valley
offered treatment instead of jail," printed in the Journal-Standard.

I think that it is noble that pot consumers not be sent to jail for
using a natural herb that has never killed anybody. But why treatment?
Like millions of others, I am addicted to coffee that contains
caffeine. Do I need or want treatment for my coffee addiction? No.

How would coffee consumers feel if their nanny-state government
criminalized coffee? Probably the same way marijuana consumers feel
today.

Kirk Muse, former Freeport resident
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