[Vision2020] Medical Cannabis: National Academy of Sciences

[Pat Kraut]

 "I am certain that you must have read somewhere
about the Prohibition and the 18th Amendment.  It didn't work."
It did reduce the crisis of cirrhosis of the liver that was happening.
I have been in many settings where people were drinking or/and using MJ.
None of them made sense or have the ability to drive or make good let alone
responsible decisions. I know that the way we handle MJ now isn't really
working but I don't know that making it legal will actually help either. I
think that too many people don't realize how much it really does affect
them.
PK


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
To: "'Kai Eiselein'" <editor at lataheagle.com>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 3:06 PM
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Medical Cannabis: National Academy of Sciences


It is truly simple, Mr. Eiselein.  It is like I have mentioned for the
umpteenth time.

Legalize it and control it like alcohol.  Make the crimes just as comparable
(DUI, minor in possession, etc, etc.)

It has been proven over and over again.  If you want to control something,
legalize it.  And I am not talking about Arnold's lame attempt at humor,
suggesting that bureaucracy will slow things to a crawl.

Making it illegal to possess and use only serves to fatten the black market
(pronounced "drug dealers").  I am certain that you must have read somewhere
about the Prohibition and the 18th Amendment.  It didn't work.

If it were legalized, its potency and availability would be standardized
like alcohol.

Question:  Do you prefer that 18 year-old driver to be drunk on alcohol?
The false sense of being "safer" is not restricted to marijuana.

Wake up, America.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are
dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all
exist very nicely in the same box.



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