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.
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