STOP JAILING CANNABIS USERS

To the editor:

Thank you for the editorial "Time to recognize marijuana's medical uses,"
published July 9.

It is way overdue to quit caging humans for using cannabis. That includes
sending probationers to jail and parolees back to jail for failing a drug
test over casual cannabis use, which may occur after work instead of
drinking a beer.

This one single step may help relieve the over-incarceration of American
citizens, which is about as high as it gets in the world. Isn't
over-incarceration among the reasons the U.S.A. has lost its seats on the
United Nations Human Rights Commission and the United Nations Narcotics Board?

Accept cannabis for what it is as described on the first page of the Bible.
If God gave us cannabis, who gives us cannabis prohibition?

Stan White, Dillon, Colo.