CAGING HUMANS FOR POT USE CALLED WICKED

As Maj. Gen. Arthur T. Dean, (Fighting drug abuse is community effort,
Sept. 4) slips and asserts about cannabis (marijuana): "... the perception
of its harm..." and illustrates the fact that government must create the
perception like an illusion. Cannabis is not nearly as harmful as the
"Reefer Madness" government would like citizens to believe.

It is commendable to help addicts abusing drugs or reaching out for help to
end addiction of hard drugs. It is commendable to help keep kids from using
alcohol and drugs, including the plant cannabis. But please do not confuse
that with citizens that consume cannabis, yet do not abuse it. It defies
integrity and rationality to cage humans for using cannabis.

Fighting cannabis is not a community effort, but rather a biblically
disobedient, government effort.

As an obedient Christian I assert through the spirit of truth, it is wicked
and sinful to cage humans for using a plant.

Stan White, Dillon, Colo.