MARIJUANA - IT'S TIME TO END THIS PROHIBITION

After reading about the medicinal marijuana case before the U.S.
Supreme Court, it reminded me of a very old book I recently came
across ("Possible abuse of medical pot debated," Nov. 30).

The book stated: "Demand for modification is frequently heard. If by
modification is meant a lowering of the penalties and 'medicinal
liquor,' such demand is for the most part simply a request that
Congress enlarge its hypocrisy by inviting an increase in law
violation. Demands for such modifications are foolish and futile."

The book is called "Prohibition: Legal and Illegal," published in 1928.

Replace "medicinal liquor" with "medicinal marijuana," and it could
have been written today. National alcohol prohibition lasted from 1920
to 1933. National marijuana prohibition has lasted since 1937.

Those who have no interest in ending this prohibition should be
advised that their taxes will have to be raised to pay for more jails
and police so that their posterity can be arrested in the coming decades.

Randy Vizyak

Mukwonago