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Letter: Phillippines: Legalizing Marijuana
Alun Buffry Philippines Daily Enquirer
Monday 06 Dec 2004 HOW brave and honest of Councilor Noel de Jesus to suggest the decriminalization of marijuana. (PDI, 11/23/04) I have read about death sentences meted out to marijuana smugglers who have, admittedly, broken your laws but who, it seems, haven't actually hurt anyone. Pure marijuana (cannabis) is unlikely to hurt but a very tiny percentage of people. Judge Young of the United States Drug Enforcement Agency stated: Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. How can people be hanged for that? It makes a pleasant change to read about someone in the Philippines who recognizes the problems that come with prohibiting marijuana not least that it leaves the supply of the substance in the hands of crooks whose only motive is cash. But just the decriminalization of marijuana possession will not solve the problems, it will only mean that people can possess it but cannot obtain it: the user will be free from prosecution but the supplier will still be in big trouble. The answer has to lie in legalizing its home cultivation and commercial supply through regulated outlets. That would separate marijuana from the hard drugs and all the misery the latter cause. ALUN BUFFRY, P.O. Box 198, Norwich, England
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