FIRED UP OVER DEBATE ON POT

Re "Marijuana farmers basking in the sun, Nov. 1

Can we just go ahead and legalize pot already?

The Times tells us all about the problems in rural Northern
California and seems to conclude that too-lax pot laws are to blame.

Soft pot laws are blamed for trashing national forest lands,
supporting violent narco-traffickers, the proliferation of razor
wire, inflated real estate prices and strangers with dreadlocks.

If pot were legal, no one would grow it in national forests.
Narco-traffickers would stop selling it, and the strangers with
dreadlocks would stay home.

People would keep smoking pot like they always have, and would have
to find something else to do with the billions of dollars wasted on
the insane war on drugs.

Noel Rhodes

Los Angeles