Pubdate: Thu, 29 Sep 2011
Source: Chico News & Review, The (CA)
Copyright: 2011 Chico Community Publishing, Inc.
Contact:  http://www.newsreview.com/chico/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/559
Author: Diane Pillsbury

POT PROS AND CONS

In the past I was not especially pro or con legalizing marijuana, but 
I do find the ongoing "war on drugs" that seems to be waged primarily 
on small local marijuana growers in the hills a waste of our limited resources.

Perhaps if marijuana was legal the police (local and federal) could 
focus on the real problems, such as violence, gangs, meth, heroin, 
crack, ecstasy and of course cartel marijuana grows.

After reading this year's almost daily newspaper-reported marijuana 
issues, I would vote to legalize (with special considerations in 
neighborhoods and around schools where it could affect others). It is 
time to move on.

Diane Pillsbury

Chico
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