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Letter: It's time to stop treating marijuana use as crime
Stan White The Sun Chronicle
Tuesday 04 Mar 2008 Cannabis (marijuana) sales do not add crime to neighborhoods ("Marijuana sales attract crime to neighborhood," March 1) but cannabis prohibition does. Cannabis is a relatively safe God-given plant that millions of otherwise honest law-abiding citizens choose to use and arguably should be immediately re-legalized. Even government studies historically discredit the "gateway" theory. The so-called gateway to hard drugs exists because people who sell cannabis sometimes also sell hard drugs. In fact, the ignorant cannabis laws themselves create gateway drug problems since cannabis is misclassified as a Schedule I substance while meth is only a Schedule II substance, and when people try cannabis they then may think meth is no big deal either. And habits? Cannabis is less addictive than caffeine and coffee drinkers aren't committing crime to acquire it. It's clearly time to stop caging responsible adults for using and selling cannabis. Stan White, Dillon, Colo. http://www.thesunchronicle.com/articles/2008/03/04/opinion/opinion02.txt
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