Pubdate: Tue, 24 Jun 2014
Source: Austin American-Statesman (TX)
Copyright: 2014 Austin American-Statesman
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Author: Kirk Muse

GIVE ADULTS FREEDOM OF CHOICE ON POT USE

Re: June 9 commentary, "Pot isn't harmless; making it legal would be 
a disaster." I agree that legalizing cannabis would be a disaster for 
professional drug war cheerleader Calvina Fay because she would be 
unemployed. I'd like to add that the cannabis legalization issue is 
not whether cannabis is completely safe for everybody, including 
children and adolescents; it is not. The issue is freedom of choice 
for adults. Children have died from eating peanuts and peanut butter 
but we don't cage peanut growers, sellers or consumers. One in 
thirteen children suffer from food allergies, yet we have no foods 
that are outlawed. And the voters of Colorado and Washington state 
have decided that we should not cage cannabis growers, sellers or 
consumers. Texas adults have the freedom of choice of whether or not 
to consume legal alcohol. Shouldn't they have the same freedom of 
choice regarding legal cannabis?

KIRK MUSE,

MESA, ARIZ.
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