ONLY ONE WAY

Editor:

I'm writing about Marie Zettler's story, "Fighting marijuana grow
operations together" (9-27-07).

There is one way and only one way to stop illegal grow-ops -
re-legalize marijuana so it can be sold in licensed and regulated businesses.

Marijuana grow operations exist because government marijuana
prohibition policies make the easy-to-grow weed almost as valuable as
pure gold.

How many grow-ops grow tobacco - the tobacco that contains nicotine?
Probably none. If Canada or the United States decided to criminalize
tobacco, the situation would soon change.

Prohibition doesn't work. It didn't work for the drug alcohol, and
it's not working for marijuana and it never will.

Kirk Muse,
Mesa, AZ,
U. S. A.