Pubdate: Wed, 10 Dec 2008
Source: Los Angeles Times (CA)
Copyright: 2008 Los Angeles Times
Contact: http://drugsense.org/url/bc7El3Yo
Website: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/248
Author: Jonathan Taylor
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08.n1088.a07.html

MUSINGS ON MARIJUANA

Re "Should we tax pot?" Opinion, Dec. 4

Patt Morrison tells us that a Rand Corp. researcher estimates that if
pot were legal, 60% to 70% of the population would smoke it regularly,
as its addictive potential has supposedly been underestimated.

Yet pot is legal or decriminalized in some countries -- the
Netherlands, for example -- and rates of regular use in these
countries are lower than in the U.S., where pot is illegal. Was
Morrison high when she wrote this column?

Jonathan Taylor

La Habra
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