LEGALIZE POT

Cannabis prohibition has failed just like alcohol prohibition
failed.

When will politicians learn that adults who want to get high will find
a way to get high, just like those who wanted to get drunk were able
to get drunk during alcohol prohibition?

A regulated and taxed cannabis market for adults is long overdue in
America. By regulating the market it would make it tougher for
teenagers to acquire the substance as well, since our current system
of prohibition has no oversight of dealers. By making cannabis sales
similar to alcohol sales, with licensed sellers and age restrictions,
teenagers would actually have a harder time of acquiring cannabis.
Plus, this would allow adults to purchase the product legally instead
of being forced to go through the underground market.

Those who do not support "legalizing" cannabis do so out of fear or
job security but they rarely call for a return to alcohol prohibition.
Alcohol prohibition caused many more problems than alcohol itself,
cannabis prohibition is no different and needs to be repealed.

Dan Linn

Executive Director Illinois NORML