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Webpage: http://drugsense.org/url/suTykjwV
Pubdate: Sat, 11 Jun 2016
Source: Lowell Sun (MA)
Copyright: 2016 MediaNews Group, Inc.
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Website: http://www.lowellsun.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/852
Author: Patrick Heintz
Note: Officer Patrick Heintz (Ret.) spent more than 20 years as a
corrections officer and substance abuse counselor. He is now a
speaker for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), a group of
criminal justice professionals working to legalize marijuana.
LEGALIZE MARIJUANA AND IMPROVE PUBLIC SAFETY
I'm a retired corrections officer and substance abuse counselor, and
I'm tired of hearing the same reasons as to why we shouldn't legalize
marijuana that we've been hearing for the past 40 years.
Massachusetts has a special opportunity to improve public safety and
limit marijuana access to the young and at-risk. Marijuana is not
harmless, and given my background in substance abuse counseling, I am
firmly against any kind of substance abuse.
However, marijuana prohibition and its consequences on individuals,
families, and communities are far worse than using the drug.
Thankfully, our state has already taken an obvious step in the right
direction by decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana
for adults.
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MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom
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