Pubdate: Thu, 15 Feb 2007
Source: Columbia Daily Tribune (MO)
Copyright: 2007 Columbia Daily Tribune
Contact:  http://www.columbiatribune.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/91
Note: Prints the street address of LTE writers.
Author: Kirk Muse
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/pot.htm (Cannabis)

OFFICIALS WASTE TIME, FUNDS ON UNNEEDED POT BUST

Editor, the Tribune: I'm writing about "Marijuana bust leads to 
arrests" in the Feb. 12 Tribune. The marijuana traffickers arrested 
will soon be replaced. They always are.

It seems to me that jails and prisons should be reserved for only 
those who intentionally harm others against their will.

Not gardeners. Not people who use, produce or sell "unapproved" 
substances to willing buyers.

In a marijuana transaction there are willing buyers and willing 
sellers. So why is the government involved?

For the sake of our children, we need our government to protect us 
from real criminals - not ourselves.

A free country's government cannot protect its adult citizens from 
themselves. A free country's government has no right attempting to do so.

Kirk Muse

Mesa, Ariz.
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