DEATH FOR DRUG USERS BARBARIC

Where there is marijuana prohibition, there is crime. People do not
commit violent crimes when they are on marijuana. The death penalty for
marijuana users is utterly barbaric.

The one and only answer to the drug problem is to end drug prohibition.
Take control of the drug market out of the hands of the current owners and
allow it to be regulated by laws that will establish a system of
production, manufacture and sale of marijuana products that will benefit
all the people.

Regulation by laws in an established system would prevent children from
being exposed to criminal elements that now control the market and would
ensure the sale of consumable marijuana to adults only.

Once people realize the truth, that a legal industry of marijuana and
hemp products can produce jobs for people stricken with poverty, tax
income for the government and profits for small and family businesses,
then you will see a reduction in poverty in the Philippines.

Do you really expect any person who sells marijuana to someone to be
responsible for that person's actions? After living in the Philippines, I
find it sickening to believe that the people who I have come to know as
so compassionate and morally tolerant of other peoples lives would stoop
so low as to let their government run over them and declare that death is
the only answer.

Steve Shamblen

San Antonio, Texas