Pubdate: Thu, 07 Feb 2013
Source: Daily Independent (Ashland, KY)
Copyright: 2013 The Daily Independent, Inc.
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Author: Evonne Henderson

LEGALIZING POT IS LONG OVERDUE

What a nation of hypocrites we Americans have become. While our 
elected officials use tragedies like the massacre of schoolchildren 
to push for gun control, ignoring the Second Amendment, Jan. 22 
marked the anniversary of an atrocity equal to the Holocaust and all 
the war dead in all our American wars plus all murders.

I am referring to the premeditated slaughter of millions of children 
as a result of the Roe v. Wade ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court. We 
will never know what wonderful people - maybe even a few presidents - 
we have lost in this slaughter, maybe even someone who could have 
cured cancer. I believe the so-called "justices" who made this 
decision possible should be tried for crimes against humanity, as 
well as those who continue to uphold it.

In regards to Kenneth Hart's superb column on legalizing hemp and 
marijuana, right on! With all due respect to our law enforcement 
officers, legalization would take all the profit out of pot brought 
in from Mexico and elsewhere. People who are disabled and own small 
acreage and can't get out to check it would not have to worry about 
dope heads crossing property lines to plant it on someone else's 
land. Farmers, loggers and hunters would not take their lives into 
their hands every time they went into the woods to make an honest living.

Common-sense legalization is long overdue.

Evonne Henderson

Olive HIll
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