SAFER DRUG POLICY EQUALS JOBS

Help stamp out terrorism and gangs, while creating millions of
desperately needed jobs -- decriminalize marijuana. A regulated
medicinal/recreational cannabis industry alone is worth multiple
billions of taxed income.

Beyond pot production -- the plant has thousands of uses, from paper
and textiles to food and fuel.

And it all would be grown by American farmers, manufactured into
products by American workers and sold worldwide, creating real,
legal, non-outsourced, taxpaying, American jobs.

After 40 years, the U.S. war on drugs has cost over $1 trillion and
over 100,000 lives wasted. Drug use is rampant and violence
widespread. Take the money off the black market. Drug plants (coca,
poppy) cost less to grow than lettuce. The illegality makes the
insane profits and corruption. No illegal money -- no incentive.

Protect children, get drugs off the streets, end the drug war and
re-legalize cannabis. Deglamorize hard drugs, put them in clinics
with doctors in sterile, clean places and offer treatment, not jail
and drug courts. Bad, violent people -- on drugs/alcohol or not --
still go to jail, in now spacious prisons.

A sensible drug policy would be the sane and safer approach and produce jobs.

Kelin Kreider, Pasco