EDUCATION GOES FURTHER THAN CRIMINALIZATION

I applaud your police department to be the first officials in your
city to come to their senses regarding cannabis/marijuana.

What is ludicrous is this editorial comparing a teenager
experimenting with marijuana and kids who rob houses, steal cars and
shoot people. That is a sensationalistic and sad statement coming
from someone, who one would think, has access to the facts.

One fact being that D.A.R.E is going down the tubes due to total
failure to accomplish their goals.

People, even kids, these days are not as easily brainwashed as they
were in the 1930's, when the lies began about this herb.

There is a small, but vocal minority of people in this county who are
so narrow-minded about cannabis/marijuana that they seem able to
overlook all science and revert to that 1930's style brainwashing,
while brushing off all the facts, including those about the medicinal
use of cannabis/marijuana.

To compare an experiment with a felony is truly ludicrous.

I applaud your police department to be the first officials in your
city to come to their senses regarding cannabis/marijuana.

Education, meaning the truth, about this herb will go a lot further
than continuing the lies.

LJ Carden Concord, Calif. Via the Internet