USE JAIL ONLY FOR DANGEROUS PEOPLE

I'm writing about: "Jail Crowding Emergency Declared" (Herald Times
March 7).

I have a common sense, easy and inexpensive solution to your jail
overcrowding situation.

Reserve your jail space for only those who intentionally harm others
against their will. Not gardeners. Not people who use, produce or sell
to willing buyers "unapproved" products.

Re-legalize the now illegal unapproved products so they can be sold in
legal, licensed, regulated and taxed business establishments. Just
like we do for the unapproved products: tobacco and alcohol.

What message would this send to our children? The same message we send
to children by allowing alcohol and tobacco to sold in legal and
licensed business establishments.

A free country's government cannot protect its adult citizens from
themselves. A free country's government has no right attempting to do
so.

Kirk Muse

Mesa, Ariz.