CLAIM MARIJUANA USE WILL GO UP IS FALSE

To the editor:

As a Michigan police officer for 18 years, I was sent to zero calls
for service generated by the use of marijuana.

While Mr. Lehman throws out a stat that shows 20 percent of Woodland's
patients have an issue with marijuana, what he did not tell you is
that courts give people a choice: jail or treatment.

Of course, they all choose treatment, whether they abuse marijuana or
not.

Moreover, Mr. Lehman's claim that pot use will go up because it is
available for patients is false.

In all 12 states where adult citizens have legal access to medical
cannabis, use has gone down, including use by young people.

Mr. Lehman probably has a lot of stock in drug companies, whose
profits are diminished by each state that allows people to grow their
own medicine.

The War on Drugs is the most destructive, dysfunctional and immoral
domestic policy since slavery and Jim Crow.

Drug dealers only fear one thing: legalization.

Howard J. Wooldridge

Laingsburg