Pubdate: Wed, 06 Jan 2016
Source: Fresno Bee, The (CA)
Copyright: 2016 The Fresno Bee
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Author: Roger Minassian

MARJIUANA PROVIDES DRUG THAT KILLS YOUNG MEN'S DREAMS

In 2012, Coloradans voted to legalize the use of recreational 
marijuana and in November of 2015, they voted to use some of the tax 
revenue from marijuana sales for drug-prevention programs!

Does anyone else see a problem with that? Obviously, The Fresno Bee 
editors don't, so they gave us a two-page spread on all the money to 
be made from marijuana investments and sales. Thanks for promoting 
California legalization! Now we can look forward to risking our 
mellowed lives with even more buzzed drivers.

We already use tax money from tobacco sales for anti-smoking 
campaigns. Why didn't we learn that lesson? Don't legalize anything 
which you then have to prevent.

If money is the only issue journalists and politicians are concerned 
about, then why don't we legalize prostitution, kidnapping for ransom 
and killing for body parts?

Having worked to lift hundreds of poor youth, I can verify that 
marijuana is the gateway drug that prostitutes the dreams of these 
men, kidnaps their hopes and kills their desires for a better life. 
How about a two-page article on that? Have we learned anything from 
cocaine for the elite becoming crack for the poor? I think not.

Roger Minassian, Fresno
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