TIME TO LEGALIZE AND TAX MARIJUANA

Our state tax monies need to be used to prosecute violent crime, not
punish medical marijuana users. Over 500 deaths are reported each
year from Tylenol overdose, but marijuana has never been listed as
the medical cause of an overdose death.

Can we not legalize, tax and control medical marijuana production and
distribution as a means of taking the violence out of its production
and distribution while generating millions in tax revenue for a
struggling state?

We need to deal with the illegal production, sale and consumption of
marijuana as being one of social significance. As a society, we must
focus our dwindling police resources on preventing violent crimes
instead of clogging the court systems with simple cases of
possession of marijuana, which takes valuable officers out of the
field and reduces the force desperately needed to prevent more
violent crimes.

Don McMunn,

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