PRO-POT? NOT US

The Monitor's Sept. 23 AP story on our efforts to organize in support
of taxing and regulating marijuana incorrectly referred to the
Marijuana Policy Project as a "pro-marijuana group."

We are not pro-marijuana any more than the mothers who struggled for
repeal of alcohol prohibition 75 years ago were pro-booze. Like them,
we simply recognize that prohibition is a costly, destructive failure.

We do not promote or encourage the use of marijuana or any drug.
Having looked at the evidence, we believe that current policies cause
much more harm than they prevent.

BRUCE MIRKEN

San Francisco

(The writer is director of communications for the Marijuana Policy Project.)