MANY BENEFITS TO LEGALIZING MARIJUANA

Ask any teenager what is easier to get, marijuana or alcohol. They
will tell you marijuana.

This is because there are not drug dealers selling alcohol on street
corners. Why run the risk when a nice profit can be made legally
selling to adults?

Making marijuana legal would better protect our children by making it
harder for them to get.

Growing marijuana in the USA would reduce or eliminate the need to
bring it in from Mexico. This would reduce the drug violence there
and take money away from the drug lords.

Selling marijuana out of the state-run liquor stores keeps you having
to buy it from drug dealers who might try to up sell you on something
else over time. It would also take away marijuana as a product line
they could sell.

This would put a lot of them out of business, reducing the number of
drug dealers to the ones selling the serious stuff. Reduced numbers
would make it easier for the police.

I would think most drug dealers who sell the hard stuff started by
selling marijuana. Removing marijuana as a starting point/training
ground for being a drug dealer could reduce the number of people who
wind up in that business.

I see no downside and tremendous upside to legalizing marijuana.

Russ A. Johnson

Nashua