CANNABIS SAFER THAN ALCOHOL

Dear Editor, If kids are seriously and negatively impacted by today's
drug culture, it's partly to blame on people like Ron Kirkish (Drug
Culture Having A Serious Impact On Our Young, People, Feb. 1, 2011)
for creating contempt for government drug messages by parroting
discredited lies, half-truths and propaganda.

Example: stating that cannabis (marijuana) is a very dangerous drug
is false and sophisticated people, including youth, know it. Cannabis
is safer than alcohol, cigarettes and most any substance which is
legal. Cannabis prohibition along with people like Kirkish cause
increased hard drug addiction rates. It's time to tell the truth
because honesty is the best policy. It's clearly time to RE-legalize
the relatively safe, extremely popular God-given plant cannabis.

Stan White, Dillon, Colorado