ENCOURAGE GREEN POWER AND LEGALIZE MARIJUANA

Recent articles in the Kalamazoo Gazette have inspired me to respond
to several points. Would it not be sensible for the governor to
encourage the Legislature to pass a bill to make all electric
suppliers in Michigan buy green power generated by anyone in the
state, especially by people who have backyard solar and wind generators?

In the same vein, how about a tax break for all those who buy solar
electric and wind generators and again to those companies that start
up and hire employees to build solar and wind generators?

Another point: I have worked with hospice and in my experience have
seen the positive results for those patients in pain when they smoked
or ingested marijuana.

I have observed for years the efforts of the administration and its
mislabeled war on drugs which has placed hundreds of thousands of
citizens in prison because they chose to smoke a plant that millions
use regularly in the privacy of their own homes.

This has resulted in the overcrowding of the prison system at great
expense to the rest of the population.

I would recommend legalizing marijuana for those over 21 and taxing
the sale so society could profit rather than making it a law
enforcement problem and ruining the lives of otherwise productive
taxpaying citizens.

Thomas M. Walsh

Plainwell