Jon Beydler’s op-ed (“Next step: complete legalization of marijuana”, Nov. 17) hit the bull’s eye.
It’s time to completely legalize marijuana. A sane or moral argument to continue cannabis prohibition and extermination doesn’t exist. Hopefully, when cannabis is finally legalized (and it will be legalized) the problems associated with Proposition 203 and medical use in general will be alleviated. The whole need for Proposition 203, allowing citizens to use the relatively safe, God-given plant for medical reasons, exists only because the plant is prohibited.
Legalizing cannabis will likely mean citizens who wish to use the super plant for medical purposes will not need to pay extortion money to government for protection from police.
Stan White , Dillon, Colo.
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Dale Whiting posted at 12:32 pm on Sat, Nov 27, 2010.
Stan,
While I understand Jon's reasoning and do not fault either it or yours, I still have reservations, reservations tempered by realizations that benefits neither of you have focussed your arguments on need consideration, too.
Our border problem is fueled by the arms for drugs trade. If border violence every crosses north into the US like it did cross from Canada into the US for Al Capone, ending our prohibition of marijuana would proceed as fast as ending Prohibition did under Elliott Ness. The truly bad things happening along our borders are more related if not exclusively related to the guns for drugs trade, not the illegal importation of day laborers and nanies. I never forget that the lettuce I eat each night probably was picked by an illegal laborer whose cousin hoed weeds from that same field 60 days ago.
And who ever would think to lock up those who voliated Prohibition and throw away the key like we do now for marijuana. The notion that marijuana is a gateway to hard drug usage seems not to have panned out. Heck, methamphetamines do much more harm that does marijuana. But I am not yet convinced that marijuana usage compares with alcohol usage. Rather than legalized marajuana for medical use, I would have preferred to legalize canabis pills.
mmjconsulting posted at 4:42 am on Sun, Nov 28, 2010.
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Get your dispensary license....the window of opportunity is just about to slam shut.