BIG ISLE AMBIVALENCE MAY BE SIGN OF TIMES

In your editorial on marijuana you fail to see the big picture. If a
population is so ambivalent to a law, maybe it's time to scrap it. Legalize
marijuana to be grown for personal use only and take the profit out of it.

We should have learned the lessons of Prohibition-type wars in the 1920s,
when crime soared over the black marketing of alcohol. An added benefit of
legalization would be the reduction of use of harder drugs that have become
more available with the suppression of the pot supply.

Whatever happened to personal freedom? The founding fathers would be
outraged at the persecution of individuals for victimless crimes. It's a
shame that citizens have to resort to the impeachment measure to circumvent
a legal system that systematically oppresses them and ignores their
outcries for justice.

Tom Hawkins
Kailua