Pubdate: Tue, 27 May 2014
Source: Columbian, The (WA)
Copyright: 2014 The Columbian Publishing Co.
Contact:  http://www.columbian.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/92
Author: Larry Little

PROHIBITION NEVER WORKS

I would like to ask the public to lead the way to legalizing marijuana
nationally. The drug war is costing millions of taxpayer dollars and
is ruining lives in ways that far outweigh the damage marijuana use
does. The stop-and-frisk of people of color in New York City is
continuing at the same rapid pace before Colorado and Washington
legalized marijuana. I'm sure stop-and-frisk methods are copied
nationwide as a substitute for eating doughnuts.

A sheriff in Washington remarked that a third killer drug is legalized
(after alcohol and tobacco) in Washington (meaning marijuana) and the
dumbest of us knows marijuana use has zero fatalities. We need better
drug education for arresting personnel and should ban the use of
"Reefer Madness" as a science text by public officials.

Larry Little

Vancouver
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