Pubdate: Wed, 30 May 2012
Source: Journal Standard, The (Freeport, IL)
Copyright: 2012 GateHouse Media, Inc.
Contact:  http://www.journalstandard.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3182
Author: Kirk Muse

MARIJUANA TAX WOULD BE A BIGGER WIN

I'm writing about the thoughtful letter from LaMar Hasbrouck, MD: "My 
View: Cigarette tax a budget, health win-win" (May 18). Like the 
majority of citizens, I am all for taxing a product that I don't use. 
But I am also for taxing a product that I do use: marijuana.

For many reasons, I prefer marijuana to alcohol. Does this make me a 
bad person? And for many reasons, I prefer marijuana to powerful 
painkillers like Vicodin. Does this make me a bad person?

Both alcohol and painkillers kill thousands of people every year. Yet 
marijuana use has never killed anyone. So please tax my vice.

Kirk Muse Mesa, AZ (formerly of Freeport)
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