Pubdate: Sat, 09 Mar 2013
Source: Houston Chronicle (TX)
Copyright: 2013 Houston Chronicle Publishing Co. Div., Hearst Newspaper
Contact:  http://www.chron.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/198
Author: Ann Lee
Page: A6

JUST TAX CANNABIS SATIVA

Regarding "Law and disorder" (Page A27, Sunday), I suggest that the
disorder comes not from the lack of judges but from the bad law that
makes possession of marijuana a crime. Marijuana is a great plant with
many wonderful uses. Certainly as medicine it has many proven
applications.

Please research how the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 was passed. That was
a shameful page in our country's history. Marijuana had not been a
problem until that tax act was passed, creating a huge bureauracy to
enforce it.

The harm to our citizens came not from the marijuana but from the
laws. It took us only 13 years to realize that Prohibition was not the
answer.

Ann Lee, Houston
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