PROHIBITION ISN'T FUNNY

(Re: "Still smokin'," Buzz, Dec. 18.) Cheech and Chong have been effective
splitting my gut exposing the prohibition, persecution and extermination of
the relatively safe, socially acceptable, God-given plant, cannabis, for
what it is. But cannabis prohibition is not funny. I was angry when I heard
George Bush and John Ashcroft's ignoids caged Chong over this bullshit.
Government is screwing the country bad with this subsidized discrimination
and persecution; it's as though America is run by Nazis trying to destroy
us.

And then the shaking head realizes cannabis prohibition even affects
hemp, which doesn't even have THC, yet government classifies it as a
Schedule I substance along with heroin and LSD. Hemp prohibition puts
America in a mind-bending lose-lose-lose situation.

Ironically, perhaps America's largest debt is with China, which allows
its communist farmers to grow hemp, while free American farmers are
prohibited from growing hemp. I wonder, does China have lobbyists
helping prohibit Americans from growing hemp so they might profit and
cause us to self-destruct?

Cheech and Chong are funny. Cannabis prohibition is
nation-destructive, dysfunctional, luciferous, vulgar, selfish, and
it's the work of the devil. Cannabis prohibitionists should be treated
like vampires.

Stan White

Dillon, Colo.