Pubdate: Tue, 15 Dec 2015
Source: Press Democrat, The (Santa Rosa, CA)
Copyright: 2015 The Press Democrat
Contact:  http://www.pressdemocrat.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/348
Author: Dick McKee

THIS IS MEDICINE?

EDITOR: I have mixed feelings about the legalization of marijuana. I 
did my share of drugs years ago, and I am a recovering alcoholic. 
While I feel the war on drugs has been a dismal failure since its 
inception, the proliferation of pot as another inebriate isn't going 
to turn out well. The marijuana available today isn't the "ditch 
weed" we were smoking in the 1960s and '70s. This stuff is super 
potent. Is this what it is we're looking for?

Let's keep people out of jail for using pot, but any time you create 
an industry, you will pervert the original intent of the exercise. I 
can see that happening already. And the best promotion is probably 
not depicting people in the "medication" area burning joints that 
look like your arm ("In search of best buds," Saturday). C'mon 
people, let call this what it is. Let's all get stoned!

DICK McKEE

Santa Rosa
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