"LEGALIZE IT" AND END ILLEGAL FINANCIAL GAIN

Steve Kubby was wrongfully represented in a letter to the editor in the
Auburn Journal, July 3.

When living in the United States, Steve was prescribed marijuana by a
California doctor. Even though Steve had all the state's documents to
verify his marijuana was a legal medicine, the Drug Enforcement Agency, a
government bureaucracy designed to seize nonviolent American
citizens' assets and property to stay afloat financially, bulldozed and
ransacked Steve and his wife, Michele, Kubby's humble home.

They have tried to justify their inexcusable actions by saying illegal
drugs fund terror and Saddam Hussein, while ignoring the fact that this
wouldn't happen if "street drugs" were regulated.

Has anyone even stopped to think that if "street drugs" were legal 20 years
prior to 9/11 that there wouldn't have been an attack on America? I
guarantee that Osama Bin Laden doesn't want prohibition to end.

Prohibition creates economic opportunities for terrorist and criminals that
otherwise wouldn't be there, and then we pretend that these are the
negative effects of the drugs themselves, but they are the negative effects
of prohibition.

But we continue to ignore the truth because non-users think "it doesn't
affect me, so why should I care?" If 9/11 didn't affect you, I'm not sure
you are American. I know the D.E.A. isn't.

John Henry

Irving, Texas