ANOTHER REASON FOR PEACEFUL BLOCK PARTY

Sunday's article about the Mifflin Street Block Party should have
been titled "Pot paraders pacify partiers."

Alcohol, the legal drug of choice for Mifflin partiers, is a
depressant. Cannabis produces euphoria. The good vibes given off by
the Global Cannabis Marchers stuck around long enough to keep
everything much more peaceful and the result was less violence and
fewer arrests this year. There's a lesson in there somewhere.

- -- Gary Storck, co-founder, Madison chapter of the National
Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws