Pubdate: Thu, 24 Apr 2008
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA)
Copyright: 2008 Santa Cruz Sentinel
Contact: http://drugsense.org/url/sE0hOwkGfF
Website: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/394
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n418/a07.html
Author: Eric Kahl

IT TAKES COURAGE TO BREAK LAW

Five-thousand people break the law of California together and how 
does the Sentinel report it? Would the Sentinel write this anti-pot 
article if this was an anti-war rally or a civil rights march? I 
found your article one-sided and oblivious to 4/20 protests all over 
the country. Your article did not mention 4/20 gatherings at Denver, 
over 1,000 people, and in Redwood Park, over 2,500 people.

It takes courage to break the law when you believe the law is unjust. 
Marijuana should be decriminalized and taxed, regulated like alcohol. 
How many people die with alcohol versus marijuana? Prohibition did 
not work, if I remember my history. What about the children? Well, I 
asked a group of teenagers what was harder to get -- beer or pot? Can 
you guess what they said? One is regulated and the other is not.

Eric Kahl

Felton
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