Pubdate: Mon, 21 Apr 2014
Source: Honolulu Star-Advertiser (HI)
Copyright: 2014 Stan White
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/5154
Author: Stan White

CLASSIFICATION OF POT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE

A sane or moral argument to continue cannabis prohibition doesn't
exist.

Another important reason to end cannabis prohibition that doesn't get
mentioned is because prohibition increases hard drug addiction rates.
It puts citizens who choose to use the relatively safe plant into
contact with people who often also sell hard drugs.

Further, the government claims that heroin is no worse than cannabis,
and methamphetamine and cocaine are less harmful, by insisting that
cannabis is a Schedule I substance along with heroin, while
methamphetamine and cocaine are only Schedule II substances.

How many citizens have tried cannabis and realized it is not nearly as
dangerous as claimed and believed other substances must not be either,
only to find themselves addicted to hard drugs? Can the message from
cannabis prohibitionists be any worse for vulnerable citizens?

Stan White Dillon, Colo. 
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