Pubdate: Wed, 22 Oct 2008
Source: Detroit Free Press (MI)
Copyright: 2008 Detroit Free Press
Contact:  http://www.freep.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/125
Author: Rusty Hancock

SKIP THE EXAGGERATIONS

The big reason some of us feel like voting in favor of this
proposition is the over-the-top opposition. There may be problems of
one sort or another with the proposition as currently constituted, but
when the right wing takes its predictably sky-is-falling stance, I
tend to get as unyielding as they are.

I'm still having trouble understanding why a lot of drugs can't be
handled like our national drug of choice, alcohol -- legalize and
regulate. If someone abuses it to the point where they endanger
others, then land on them hard.

Of course, you don't do things like let people smoke in no-smoking
areas, even medicinal herbs. That's a detail. Details can be worked
out. And I don't really have a dog in this fight. My drug of choice is
caffeine. It just seems like so many decisions get made on the basis
of some irrational prejudice that has nothing to do with the facts of
the situation.

Rusty Hancock

Madison Heights
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