SCHUETTE'S STUPIDITY

Re: "High stakes" (Nov. 2), the clear stupidity of people like state
Attorney General Bill Schuette - in making a career of opposing
marijuana - is seen when we examine a few facts. First off, contrary
to any myths promoted by the drug warriors, cannabis is the least
toxic drug known to mankind. There has never been a fatality
attributed to marijuana in 5,000 years of recorded use.

Claims that marijuana is "dangerous" are myths and propaganda coming
from drug warriors worried about losing cushy jobs chasing potheads,
who need no protection from cannabis. It is long past time to abandon
reefer madness and to set marijuana free.

Marijuana prohibition was founded on absurd fictions such as the
notion that "[Smoking] one [marihuana] cigarette might develop a
homicidal mania, probably to kill his brother." However, the drug
crusaders cannot point to a single homicide caused by just smoking marijuana.

State Attorney General Bill Schuette would do citizens a better
service by abandoning his reefer madness campaign and focusing law
enforcement on real crimes such as rape, child molesting, drunk
driving, car theft, burglary, assault, murder and other crimes that
really injure people.

- -Ralph Givens, Daly City, Calif.