Pubdate: Wed, 08 Jun 2016
Source: Stabroek News (Guyana)
Copyright: 2016 Stabroek News
Contact:  http://www.stabroeknews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/4034
Author: Romain Pitt

IS CRIMINALIZING MARIJUANA A GREATER EVIL THAN LEGALIZING IT?

Dear Editor,

The use of marijuana for recreational purposes cannot be a "good" 
thing. That should not be a basis for its decriminalization or legalization.

The issue is whether criminalization of the drug, given the enormous 
violence associated with the 'policing' by criminals of its supply, 
combined with the corruption facilitated by the sheer enormity of the 
profits arising therefrom, is or is not a greater societal evil than 
decriminalization or legalization. The evidence is overwhelming that 
criminalization produces the greater evil.

Yours faithfully, Romain Pitt
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