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IF HEALTH outcomes instead of cultural norms determined drug laws, marijuana would be legal ("Pot for patients," editorial, Nov. 30). Unlike alcohol, marijuana has never been shown to cause an overdose death, nor does it share the addictive properties of tobacco. Marijuana can be harmful if abused, but jail cells are inappropriate as health interventions and ineffective as deterrents.

The first marijuana laws were enacted in response to Mexican migration during the early 1900s despite opposition from the American Medical Association. Dire warnings that marijuana inspires homicidal rages have been counterproductive at best. White Americans did not even begin to smoke pot until a soon-to-be entrenched government bureaucracy began funding reefer madness propaganda.

By raiding voter-approved medical marijuana providers in California, the US Drug Enforcement Administration, which claims illicit drug use funds terrorism, is forcing cancer and AIDS patients into the hands of street dealers. Apparently marijuana prohibition is more important than protecting the country.

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freshair

FUnd terrorism? Why not make it legal to fund in other areas then. why? cause no ones thinking long term.

Oppy

fo sho government is more worried about a losing battle 2 drugs than about the growing civil unjust due to the faCT we are chasing are tail in the so called war on terrorism

Unregistered

i think it should be legal all around!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gallomimia

No guys... Small aspects of the system have been manipulated to keep pot illegal despite any medical benefits because it creates a political issue. A "political issue" is just a way of making you choose one of the leaders, rather than being upset by the fact that they actually do control your life.

Nothing to do with thinking long term (quite to the contrary, someone is thinking WAY TOO MUCH long term). And the government isn't losing the war on drugs. It's going exactly the way they want it to, with taxes at an all time high.