MARIJUANA DECRIMINALIZATION, DRUG-LAW REFORM WORTH PUSHING

Commentator
Robert Sharpe hit the bull's-eye in exposing cannabis (marijuana)
prohibition ("Conservative Republican leads effort to decriminalize
marijuana," The Daily Progress, Nov. 28). Caging responsible adults
for using the extremely popular God-given plant cannabis is just plain
wrong on every facet. I'm surprised more Republicans are not fighting
for credible drug-law reform, since it coincides with so many
conservative values such as freedom, states rights, lower government
spending, the free market and honoring the U.S. Constitution, etc.

Another reason to pass HB 1443 is that legalization is biblically
correct, since God, the ecologician, indicates he created all the
seed-bearing plants, saying they are all good, on the first page of
the Bible. The only biblical restriction placed on cannabis is to
accept it with thankfulness (1 Timothy). What kind of government cages
people for using what God says is good?

Stan White

Dillon, Colo.