DRUG WAR FAILED, SO LEGALIZE POT

The Inquirer hit a bull's eye with
the editorial "Sell drugs or go jobless" (Tuesday), and it's not just
locally. It's throughout North America and beyond. You say that "there
must be consequences for people who violate the law," but "war on
drugs" laws are discredited and unaffordable and create contempt for
government. It's time for credible drug-law reform, and at the very
minimum that means legalizing the relatively safe, extremely popular,
God-given plant cannabis (marijuana). Legalizing and regulating
cannabis will create jobs, increase tax revenue, lower crime rates,
lower hard-drug addiction rates, add credibility to government drug
messages, open the door to hemp farming, and bring dozens of other
benefits.

Cannabis should have never been prohibited from the
beginning.

Stan White

Dillon, Colo.