Pubdate: Sat, 20 Aug 2016
Source: East Bay Times, The (CA)
Copyright: 2016 Digital First Media
Contact:  http://www.eastbaytimes.com
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/314
Note: Oakland Tribune till April 2016
Author: Mike McDermott

VOTERS MUST JUST SAY NO TO LEGALIZING POT

Pot pushers have enough money to bankroll a serious campaign to make 
California the third state allowing legalized sale and recreational 
use of marijuana. Washington and Colorado are already experiencing 
the tragic results: increased car accidents due to intoxication and 
increased smoking by young people.

If you think Big Tobacco companies are a scourge, why would you vote 
to create a new industry to promote another addictive, cancer causing 
product? Proposition 64 even allows TV advertising for marijuana 
sales promotion. Do you want your kids bombarded with advertising 
encouraging them to light up a joint?

According to the American Lung Association, marijuana smoke contains 
33 cancer-causing chemicals. Like cigarette smokers, regular 
marijuana smokers are subject to irreversible lung damage. COPD is 
the third leading cause of death in America.

You can stop this train wreck by telling your friends and family to 
vote no on Prop. 64 in November. Just say no.

Mike McDermott

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