Pubdate: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 Source: Patriot Ledger, The (Quincy, MA) Copyright: 2008 GateHouse Media, Inc. Contact: http://www.patriotledger.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1619 Author: Darral Good Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n1073/a07.html PROHIBITION DIDN'T WORK FOR BOOZE Your deputy chief of police in Wellesley needs to stop for a minute and imagine prohibition on alcohol instead of prohibition on marijuana. It's wrong for him to consider people like me criminals if we choose to smoke marijuana instead of drinking booze. Would he treat the users of alcohol as poorly as he does people who smoke marijuana? I don't think so. I think, then, he should realize that it should have been legalized years ago just as alcohol was. The trade in marijuana should be taxed and it's use should not be a reason for jail. DARRAL GOOD Shoreline, Wash. - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom