CANNABIS NOT A CHEMICAL WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION

To the editor:

The discredited government-subsidized prohibition and extermination of
cannabis ("Marijuana is Scoring High with Students," Oct. 20, 2004) is
unfair.

You mentioned financial aid may be denied for a cannabis infraction but
forgot to mention those opportunities are not denied to murderers, rapists
or other violent criminals. It's unfair to inflict drastic punitive actions
to users, which are greater than the harms of cannabis itself, then,
further, cite those harms as reasons to stop using cannabis.

The government would like citizens to think cannabis is a chemical weapon of
mass destruction. In reality it's one of those seed-bearing plants that God
created and said is good on literally the very first page of the Bible.

Biblically, it's time to stop caging humans for using a good plant.

Stan White

Dillon, CO