Pubdate: Wed, 18 Jan 2012
Source: Gazette, The (Colorado Springs, CO)
Copyright: 2012 The Gazette
Contact: http://www.gazette.com/sections/opinion/submitletter/
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Author: Stan White
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v12/n041/a08.html

MESSAGE ON POT FULL OF LIES

It's a fact: Cannabis (marijuana) is safer than alcohol, and that 
fact doesn't change (Letters: "Sorry message about pot," Jan. 11) 
between adults or teens. Historically, the message from 
prohibitionists to teens about cannabis is full of lies, half-truths 
and propaganda and has contributed to increased hard drug addiction 
rates, contempt for all drug laws, erosion of the U.S. Constitution 
and has done nothing good. One recent study even indicates states 
which have legalized medical cannabis are experiencing lower alcohol 
usage and less traffic fatalities ("Study: States That Legalized 
Medical Pot See Decrease," The Missoulian, Dec. 28, 2011).

It's commendable to keep youth away from cannabis but caging 
responsible adults for using the extremely popular God-given plant 
(see the first page of the Bible) is the wrong way to do it.

Stan White

Dillon
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