TREAT DRUG ABUSE AS HEALTH ISSUE, NOT A CRIME

I am tired of people in favor of legalizing marijuana saying that it
would stop the drug dealers. This is just plain nonsense.

If Proposition 19, which would legalize marijuana in California,
passed in November, it would still be illegal for those younger than
18 to use the drug. Thus who do you think would be selling it to the
children? Drug dealers, of course.

If California approved this measure, it would become an even more
backward state than it is. More people would smoke marijuana, and thus
there could be more drug addicts demanding more free services.

Dick Meyer

Waxhaw, N.C.