Pubdate: Fri, 02 Oct 2015
Source: Buffalo News (NY)
Copyright: 2015 The Buffalo News
Contact: http://drugsense.org/url/GXIzebQL
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/61
Author: Ralph Burke

IT'S TIME TO LEGALIZE RECREATIONAL DRUGS

The Sept. 22 News carried an article regarding a U.S. district 
judge's comment about the harshness of the mandatory sentencing time 
for drug violators. But she maintained she hasn't a choice and gave 
the accused 20 years.

Eventually there will be legalization of many of the recreational 
drugs now in use. Movies and TV portray hundreds of incidental drug 
users. These fictional illustrations are magnified thousands of times 
in real life. Yet we turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to the 
consequences falling upon those unfortunate enough to pay a 
horrendous penalty. Many go to jail, many have their futures shot. 
Legalize these drugs. If not that, then decriminalize their use. 
Remember alcohol was once illegal.

Ralph Burke

Dunkirk
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