POT PLANTS SPROUTING? WELL, DUH

With millions of citizens choosing to use the relatively safe
God-given cannabis plant, it's not surprising millions of plants are
being grown across the nation ("Pot fields springing up like weeds in
North Texas," Aug. 3).

Americans have a right to choose to use cannabis and should demand a
regulated cultivation and market system to make it available.
Government has no right to prohibit, persecute and exterminate
cannabis. Either way, the great demand for cannabis will be met.
That's why it's the No. 1 crop in many states.

So Texas and other states can go backward and continue spending
limited tax resources to futilely attempt to stop what can't be
stopped or go forward and increase tax revenue legalizing and
regulating cannabis use - which is going to occur anyway.

- - Stan White

Dillon, Colo.