LEGALIZING CANNABIS HAS PROVEN MERITS

To the Editor,

As a retired police officer and student of history, I would ask Ms.
Vamenta to do some research on the topic of marijuana prohibition. It
has been the unwritten policy of the federal government to allow no
research to prove that marijuana is an effective, low side-effect,
low-cost medicine. They know from reading the medical journals prior
to 1937 and overwhelming anecdotal evidence that God didn't make no
junk. When the Texas Legislature in 1919 prohibited the sale of
cannabis, they made an exception for both human and animal use. Ms.
Vamenta should learn that when cannabis is legal for medical reasons,
the pharmaceutical industry will lose between 1 and 5 percent of its
$640 billion gross sales. Follow the money, Ms. Vamenta, follow the
money.

Officer Howard J. Wooldridge

Education Specialist, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

Washington, D.C.