Pubdate: Tue, 21 Jan 2014
Source: Metrowest Daily News (MA)
Copyright: 2014 MetroWest Daily News
Contact:  http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/619
Author: Stan White

NO GOOD REASON TO KEEP POT ILLEGAL

This letter is in response to your Jan. 18 editorial, "Pot 
prohibition's final years?". Colorado re-legalized cannabis 
(marijuana) over a year ago and the sky hasn't fallen. Cannabis 
prohibitionists are responsible for underground markets, cartels, 
increased hard drug addiction rates, contempt for drug laws, eroded 
constitutional rights, loss of freedom, escalated prison populations, 
corrupt politicians, race discrimination, prohibition of free 
American farmers from growing hemp (even though Communist Chinese 
farmers grow it), trillions of dollars in wasted tax dollars, 
deceiving citizens, and the list is growing faster than the plant 
itself. The sooner America re-legalizes cannabis, the sooner the sky 
will stop falling in. A sane or moral argument to continue caging or 
punishing responsible adults for using cannabis simply doesn't exist.

Stan White

Dillon, Colo.
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