RUNNING ITS COURSE

Government's discredited and immature war on the relatively safe,
God-given plant (see the first page of the Bible) cannabis
(marijuana) has about run its course.

Citizens are no longer waiting for government's lies, half-truths,
partisan science and propaganda to end ("Mr. President, respect the
voters' will on pot," Paul Armentano, Nov. 27). Cannabis prohibition
is one of America's worst policy failures in history and in 2012,
California citizens may well get another golden opportunity to vote
and legalize the plant cannabis and end the ignorance. God knows
cannabis should have never been prohibited from the beginning.

And inevitably, more citizens will vote for cannabis than President
Obama or anyone else.

Stan White

Dillon, Colo.