MARIJUANA PROHIBITION DANGEROUS

I'm writing about Robert Sharpe's outstanding letter to the editor
("Taxpayers real losers in pot war," DI, Oct. 13).

I'd like to add that marijuana is relatively safe in that it has never
caused a documented death from its use. However, marijuana prohibition
is very dangerous because marijuana is sold only by criminals who
often sell much more dangerous drugs and who offer free samples to
their marijuana customers. For the sake of our children, we need to
regulate and control the sale of marijuana. Only legal products can be
regulated, controlled, and taxed by our government.

Speaking of taxes, it seem to me that non-marijuana users would be
very much in favor of taxing a product that they don't use. Around
here, taxing someone else's vice is very popular.

Kirk Muse

Mesa, Ariz., resident