LEARN FROM THE PAST

You would think the federal government and state could look in the
past. When they made booze illegal, in stepped the Mafia and we all
know what happened then -- killings, booze runs, making moonshine,
and they made money. So now marijuana is the money-maker for the
Mexican drug cartels.

Have you been watching the news or reading your paper? Houses have
been located that are used only for growing marijuana in Oakhurst,
Sacramento, etc. Our national forests are being used by the Mexican
drug cartels, and restoring them after the cartels have made an
environmental mess is going to take months and tens of thousands of dollars.

We taxpayers are paying for the war on drugs, the clean up, the
agents that work for the war on drugs. It's not working. If
marijuana was made legal, there would be no reason for drug cartels
to grow and sell this. The state would get the taxes and could make
regulations, which we need.

Robert Blanchard

Ceres