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WHY NOT COMPLETELY LEGALIZE MARIJUANA?

While legalizing medical use of cannabis ( marijuana ) will lower hard drug addition rates as Kaytee Moyer states in her op-ed ( Here's how medical marijuana will slow down opioid abuse in Pa., March 2 PennLive ) completely re-legalizing it will lower them more.

Selling cannabis in a government regulated market separates sales where people may also sell hard drugs.  Some citizens who legitimately use opioids for medical conditions will choose cannabis even more, if it's available over the counter, like in Colorado and that will lower hard drug addiction rates.

Re-legalizing the God-given plant will eventually require the federal government changing its classification from a Schedule I substance alongside heroin, while meth and cocaine are only Schedule II substances.  Government's discredited message to Americans, that cannabis is no worse than heroin and worse than meth and cocaine has been a dangerous and irresponsible policy costing the country in too many countless ways.  How many people tried cannabis and find it less dangerous than government claims and believed other substances must not be so dangerous either, only to find themselves addicted to hard drugs?

Further, in over 5,000 years of documented use, cannabis has not killed one single person; that's safety on a Biblical scale.

STAN WHITE, Dillon, Colorado