Pubdate: Thu, 22 Oct 2015
Source: Daily Record (Wooster, OH)
Copyright: 2015 The Daily Record
Contact:  http://www.the-daily-record.com
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Author: Ernest L. Eagle

IMPLICATIONS OF LEGALIZED MARIJUANA

Editor:

I receive several publications from both conservatives and liberals. 
They tell it like it really is. They tell what the government, states 
and T.V. news, radio news, and printed news don't want the public to 
know. Things like states that have legalized marijuana have had a 
rise in crime by three to five (3 to 5) times higher. Why the rise in crime?

The high price of marijuana for whatever purpose of use is beyond the 
means of the buyers. The drug addicts or anyone else wanting their 
fixes (so to speak), can't afford it. So to get their fixes they turn 
to crime, robberies, break-in of homes and businesses alike, even 
people on the streets to get money for their marijuana.

These crimes lead to injuries and even death, in some cases, of their 
victims. Is this what we want for Ohio? Come November please think 
before you vote to legalize marijuana here in Ohio. Do you want the 
extra crime or even be a victim yourself that comes with your choice? 
I, for one, believe that to legalize marijuana in Ohio would be a big 
mistake. Think people -- think then vote.

On another matter now. If Dylann Roof who killed all those church 
people in Charleston, S.C. would have been waving an American flag 
and singing "God Bless America," would the American flag been called 
a flag of hate and racism? Would it have been banned and demanded to 
be removed from all of U.S.A. buildings? Would Obama say that it 
should be put in a museum out of sight? I think not.

If one flag is banned and called a flag of hate and racist, then why 
not condemn all flags of the world as hate and racist? After all they 
were all flown during wars just like the U.S.A. and the confederate 
flags flew during war. You say I'm stupid and don't know what I'm 
saying. Maybe so, but facts are facts.

Ernest L. Eagle

Danville
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