Pubdate: Mon, 11 Sep 2000
Source: Honolulu Advertiser (HI)
Copyright: 2000 The Honolulu Advertiser, a division of Gannett Co. Inc.
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Author: Tom Hawkins
Related: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1343/a02.html
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BIG ISLE AMBIVALENCE MAY BE SIGN OF TIMES

In your editorial on marijuana you fail to see the big picture. If a 
population is so ambivalent to a law, maybe it's time to scrap it. Legalize 
marijuana to be grown for personal use only and take the profit out of it.

We should have learned the lessons of Prohibition-type wars in the 1920s, 
when crime soared over the black marketing of alcohol. An added benefit of 
legalization would be the reduction of use of harder drugs that have become 
more available with the suppression of the pot supply.

Whatever happened to personal freedom? The founding fathers would be 
outraged at the persecution of individuals for victimless crimes. It's a 
shame that citizens have to resort to the impeachment measure to circumvent 
a legal system that systematically oppresses them and ignores their 
outcries for justice.

Tom Hawkins
Kailua
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