Pubdate: Fri, 24 May 2013
Source: Standard-Examiner (UT)
Copyright: 2013 Ogden Publishing Corporation
Contact:  http://www.standard.net/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/421
Author: Jay Bergstrom

MARIJUANA PROHIBITION HAS TAKEN ANOTHER LIFE

Editor,

The God-given plant cannabis has never killed a person; but our 
prohibition of it has just taken another life (May 24, "Stewart 
hanged himself with bedsheet, authorities say").

Humans friended cannabis millennia ago. Were there a downside, it 
would be well known by now. For a downside, our American 
prohibitionists have to gin up the wildest stuff. Our political 
leaders are still feeling too vulnerable to charges of being soft on drugs.

Stewart and Francom share a cell in purgatory, awaiting the end of 
cannabis prohibition hereabouts. If only that could make any sense of 
their deaths.

Jay Bergstrom

Forest Ranch, Calif.
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