Pubdate: Sun, 04 May 2014
Source: Honolulu Star-Advertiser (HI)
Copyright: 2014 Star Advertiser
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/5154
Author: Joseph Ronin
Page: E3

TAX INCOME NOT GOOD REASON TO LEGALIZE POT

The legalized marijuana debate rages on with the inevitable 
justification of increased tax revenue. Yet should the government's 
purpose be to seek profit?

Imagine the pitfalls of government where individual rights are 
subjugated to the purpose of profit.

One of the few true roles of government is protection from the 
criminal behavior of others. In Washington state and Colorado, people 
are overdosing on THC through their pot candies and dying or 
hallucinating. The ability of THC in higher doses to create 
hallucinations (a break with reality equaling the legal criteria of 
temporary insanity) was the reason it was made illegal.

Watch these two experiments and learn from their mistakes before 
rushing to duplicate them.

Joseph Ronin

McCully
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