CALIFORNIA EXAMPLE NOT A GOOD ONE

For Cynthia Tucker to proclaim we are a "penal colony" and to champion
how great California is for making a decision to legalize marijuana is
scary.

Evidently she does not watch the news or read other articles
concerning the violence in all the drug supplying areas (Mexico,
Guatemala, Columbia, and on and on). For her to sit back and condone
this behavior is a truly a slap in the face of all of us who abstain
from drug use.

I am sure she does not watch Fox News, but she must watch others (CNN,
"20/20" and etc. ) who have reported the troubles brewing in
California, where it is legal to grow pot under certain conditions.
California now has their own drug war brewing. Who going to fight that
drug cartel, Cynthia?

She must also know that it has been shown that the consumption of
marijuana leads to trying other drugs; how can any pundit be so
irresponsible as to condone the use of any recreational drug? And then
have the nerve to try and say blacks are being targeted. Balderdash.

Jim Balch

Albany