MARIJUANA: PROHIBITION CUTS CONSUMPTION

Dear Editor,

According to the few statistics of that time-period, alcohol prohibition
proved that the illegal status of that substance reduced its public rate of
consumption .

Also many studies indicate that pot-consumers' mental health depends in
part on the reduction or prevention of cannabis consumption.

If pro-pot people propose legalizing marijuana for practical reasons -
e.g., less pressure on already-overburdened law-enforcement and justice
systems - that's a clear motive, but there's simply way too much of the
media-propagated B.S. out there [Prohibition propagates propaganda, March
25 Letters to the Editor, Langley Advance News] telling our impressionable
youth that pot is harmless.

Frank G. Sterle, Jr. White Rock