LEGALIZE IT -- FOR KIDS' SAKE

I'm writing about Russell Barth's outstanding Sunday letter, Lying to
kids about pot.

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. Dangerous because marijuana then is sold only by
criminals. Criminals who often sell other, much more dangerous drugs,
and who offer free samples to their marijuana customers.

For the sake of the children, we need to regulate and control the sale
of marijuana.

Only legal products can be regulated by our governments. Only legal
products can be controlled by our governments. And only legal products
can be taxed by our governments. Speaking of taxes, it seem to me that
non-marijuana users would be very much in favour of taxing a product
that they don't use.

Around here, taxing someone else's vice is very popular.

Kirk Muse,

Mesa, Ariz.

(Goes over pretty big in these parts, too.)