WHERE IS SENSE?

To the editor:

The marijuana prohibition in this country has been propagated in blatant
violation of common sense for decades, and has even more dire consequences now.

The racial profliling in this country continues unabated and unchallenged
in this country where dissent is now discouraged explicitly and implicitly.
While racial prejudice runs rampant in federal and state courts, what else
could come as a result than the racially inequal prison situation we have
presently? Though whites abuse drugs in this country in equal proportions
to blacks and other minorities, people of minority descent are far more
likely to be tried and imprisoned for simple drug posession.

Though tobacco kills thousands of Hoosiers every year and marijuana kills
none, consenting adults cannot light up for harmless personal enjoyment or
even to treat the pain of chronic illness where
prescription medications have failed. Someone point to where the sense
in this policy is, because I can't find it.

Chris Craig

Bloomington