A TOP ISSUE OF OUR TIME

Editor :

David W. Dickinson got a bulls-eye (Letter: Reason The Gangs Are
Growing, Nov. 24, 2010), cannabis (marijuana) prohibition increases
hard drug addiction rates.

How many people try cannabis and realize it's not nearly as harmful as
taught in D.A.R.E.-type programs and think other substances must not
be so bad either only to become addicted to hard drugs?

How many people have become addicted to hard drugs simply because the
same dealer who sells the God-given plant cannabis may also sell hard
drugs? It's clearly time to end cannabis prohibition.

Even Canada's 2002 Senate Committee on Illegal Drugs unanimously
recommended to regulate cannabis the same way as alcohol and the Le
Dain Commission's report did the same.

Ending cannabis prohibition is one of the most important issues of our
time.

Stan White

Dillon, Colorado