LEGALIZE POT

To The Editor:

It is encouraging to know readers (Tax Marijuana, Feb. 11, 2007),
support creditable drug law reform include re-legalizing cannabis
(kanehbosm/marijuana). Many voters are in favor of allowing adults to
use cannabis and education would increase those numbers for bipartisan
support.

Fiscal conservatives will support it, since U.S. Department of
Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics, expose taxpayers spend more
than a billion dollars per year to cage citizens for cannabis offenses.

Farmers would support it because it stands to reason that if citizens
may possess cannabis with tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), farmers may grow
hemp without THC. Presently, U.S. farmers are prohibited from growing
hemp since World War II, when government temporarily needed farmers to
produce hemp to help save America do to its value for human survival.

Since the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco
effectively ended the Federal Government's attack on hemp products in
2004. Americans may now purchase them, yet American farmers are
excluded from cultivating the plant. Citizens may purchase hemp
products at health food stores, although the hemp in those products
must be imported.

American farmers are unable to compete in the free world market due to
unfair laws prohibiting hemp cultivation. The U.S., is almost the only
developed nation that doesn't allow farmers to grow hemp. In fact,
communist Chinese farmers grow hemp, and Canada's hemp industry
doubled last year where hemp had a better profit outlook than any
other Canadian crop in 2006.

Christian voters, would support it since Christ God Our Father, the
Ecologician indicates he created all the seed-bearing plants, saying
they are all good, on literally the first page of the Bible (see
Genesis 1:11-12 and 20-30) The only Biblical restriction placed on
cannabis is that it is to be accepted with thankfulness (see 1 Timothy
4:1-5).

Stan White

Dillon, Colo.