Pubdate: Mon, 09 Dec 2013 Source: Ledger-Enquirer (Columbus, GA) Copyright: 2013 Ledger-Enquirer Contact: http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/237 Author: Stan White HISTORY LESSON UNLEARNED The original Prohibition on a national scale brought us Al Capone. The sequel("Futile drug war just drags on," Ledger-Enquirer, Dec. 7, 2013) has brought the Pablo Escobars, Osama bin Ladens and their waiting replacements. Murder rates decreased for 10 years after ending the original prohibition, and ending the sequel will have the same results. At the very minimum it's time to Re-legalize the relatively safe God-given plant cannabis (marijuana). Cannabis prohibition is responsible for increased hard drug addiction rates, contempt for drug laws, eroded constitutional rights, escalated prison populations, corrupt politicians, race discrimination and prohibiting free American farmers from growing hemp (even though communist Chinese farmers grow it), and costs trillions of dollars. Stan White Dillon, Colo. - --- MAP posted-by: Matt