Pubdate: Fri, 6 Nov 2009
Source: DrugSense Weekly (DSW)
Website: http://www.drugsense.org

LETTER OF THE WEEK

MARIJUANA PROHIBITION DOES NOT PASS THE 'LOGIC' TEST

By Justin Davis

Why isn't marijuana legal? People who don't smoke still pay for it. 
How? You're paying taxes to keep it illegal for law enforcement 
people who are in jail on marijuana charges for their housing and their food.

People are getting their kids taken away because of weed, and kids 
are getting cancer from secondhand smoke from cigarettes. Innocent 
people get killed all the time from drunk drivers, but it is legal to drink.

If marijuana was legalized, it would create thousands of new jobs 
from plant stores, growers, coffee shops and transporting. Sure, 
marijuana has some bad effects, but nowhere near what cigarettes have.

Thousands of people die from cigarettes a year; nobody died off of 
marijuana alone.

Crime rates would go down as well. It would keep hardworking people 
who do smoke out of bad neighborhoods and away from serious 
criminals.  It should be a personal decision whether you want to 
smoke or not, not the government's.

Wouldn't it be better for the billions of dollars spent on marijuana 
to go to the government instead of criminal's pockets?

Justin Davis, Ridgecrest

Pubdate: Tue, 27 Oct 2009

Source: Asheville Citizen-Times (NC) 
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