OFFICIALS WASTE TIME, FUNDS ON UNNEEDED POT BUST

Editor, the Tribune: I'm writing about "Marijuana bust leads to
arrests" in the Feb. 12 Tribune. The marijuana traffickers arrested
will soon be replaced. They always are.

It seems to me that jails and prisons should be reserved for only
those who intentionally harm others against their will.

Not gardeners. Not people who use, produce or sell "unapproved"
substances to willing buyers.

In a marijuana transaction there are willing buyers and willing
sellers. So why is the government involved?

For the sake of our children, we need our government to protect us
from real criminals - not ourselves.

A free country's government cannot protect its adult citizens from
themselves. A free country's government has no right attempting to do so.

Kirk Muse

Mesa, Ariz.