TIME FOR LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA IS NOW

As a member of Nevada's Marijuana Policy Project from the start of
this initiative, it is with gratefulness that I thank, and most of
all laud, your recent editorial in support of our efforts. Your
editorial has received national attention.

Any rational person would concede that our present laws don't work,
and as is the case with medical marijuana, have become so cumbersome
so as to deny medicine to our sick citizens. It seems we have more to
fear from knee-jerk authoritarian government than we do from pot.
Even the August Federal Probation Report has stated that the biggest
danger in using and possessing marijuana came from the laws against it.

The legal philosopher Jeremy Bentham wrote long ago that we must
always apply scrutiny to our laws, lest they become anachronistic and
useless and then lead to the law's mockery, due only from former
convention or compulsion.

The time for marijuana's legalization has come. Let's all vote yes
this November, and in doing so, send a loud message to those folks in
Washington, that yes, even in "rural" Nevada, we know a bad law when
we see one.

Al Engleman

Fallon