Pubdate: Mon, 13 Jan 2014
Source: Seattle Times (WA)
Copyright: 2014 The Seattle Times Company
Contact:  http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/409
Author: Stan White
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v14/n016/a03.html

END AMERICA'S MARIJUANA PROHIBITION

I strongly disagree with what David Brooks writes about Colorado and 
Washington's legalization of marijuana.

Cannabis prohibition produces criminals, underground markets, 
cartels, contempt for drug laws, loss of freedom, escalated prison 
populations, race discrimination, prohibition of American farmers 
from growing hemp (even though communist Chinese farmers grow it), 
billions of dollars in wasted tax dollars. The list is growing faster 
than the plant itself. The sooner America ends cannabis prohibition, 
the sooner it will stop producing failure.

Colorado and Washington have produced an alternative to one of 
America's worst policy failures in history.

Stan White, Dillon, Colo.
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