REGULATE AND CONTROL THE SALE OF MARIJUANA

Thanks for publishing Bruce Codere's letter "Prohibition causes
crime," Oct. 18.

I'd like to add that marijuana is relatively safe in that it has never
caused a documented death. However, marijuana prohibition is
dangerous, because marijuana then is sold only by criminals who often
sell other, much more dangerous drugs, and who offer free samples to
their customers. For the sake of our children, we need to regulate and
control the sale of marijuana. Only legal products can be regulated.
Only legal products can be controlled by government. And only legal
products can be taxed. Speaking of taxes, it seems to me that
non-marijuana users would favour taxing a product that they don't use.

Kirk Muse

(It's a slow crawl to common sense but it's happening.)