ILLEGAL DRUGS MORE ATTRACTIVE

Editor, The Auburn Plainsman:

I have been reading with interest the many stories about the "Meth"
epidemic in our state. Meth is a devastating drug that consumes its users
lives, ravages their bodies and endangers the community.

The reason that meth has become so popular is because it only stays in your
system for 72 hours thus diminishing the risk of failing a urine test. The
natural non-addictive herb marijuana can be detected for 45 days.

People can cook up a brew of toxic chemicals quicker and more covertly than
they can tend to a garden of beautiful healthy herbs.

When will our society realize that the more we criminalize marijuana the
greater the likelihood of harder drugs being introduced to the market becomes?

Marijuana prohibition has consistently led to an increase in hard drug use
and addiction, both here in the United States and in the many countries
around the world to which the American drug war has been forcibly exported.
Many developing nations found themselves without the economic power needed
to preserve their native culture.

The drug war has consistently failed for 30 years. It is time to try a new
approach. Make marijuana legal and you diminish the meth problem.

Loretta Nall president, Alabama Marijuana Party