SentLTE-Digest Monday, August 27 2012 Volume 12 : Number 036
001 LTE: 'Colorado firefighters found large pot grow during Waldo Canyon fi
From: John Chase <>
002 LTE: Re: 'Keep the faith'
From: Kirk Muse <>
003 LTE: Re: 'Officials should allow Arizona's medical marijuana law?
From: Kirk Muse <>
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Subj: 001 LTE: 'Colorado firefighters found large pot grow during Waldo Canyon fire'
From: John Chase <>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:35:46 -0700
Editors, Denver Post -
Re: "Colorado firefighters found large pot grow during Waldo Canyon
fire", 21August http://www.denverpost.com/recommended
It is bad public policy to clamp down on growers, while letting smokers
smoke. We used a similar approach against alcohol in the 1920s when we
imprisoned bootleggers but let drinkers. The law of supply and demand
caused the wealth of the illegal market to increase, attracting greedy,
violent men. That dynamic caused such shocking criminality and
disrespect for the law, that we re-legalized alcohol in 1933. In its
effect, the 1920s was a time of "decriminalized alcohol" although we've
never used that word. Prohibition was only 13 years old, so we could
remember that life was safer before Prohibition. If memories had been
short, we might have escalated enforcement, and I'd be buying my daily
beer today from a bootlegger. The only way to take out the violence is
to take out the profit, and the best way to do that is to do what we did
in 1933: get the feds out of the prohibition business and let the states
decide how to handle it.
John Chase
727 787 3085
1620 E Dorchester Dr
Palm Harbor, FL 34684
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Subj: 002 LTE: Re: 'Keep the faith'
From: Kirk Muse <>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:30:10 -0700
To the Editor of The Tucson Weekly:
I'm writing about J. M. Smith's column: "Keep the faith: Despite resent
setbacks, legal medical marijuana will continue to be available" (8-23-12).
Unfortunately, I am not nearly as optimistic as Mr. Smith. The Mexican
drug cartels don't want any legal marijuana sold in Arizona or anywhere
in the United States.
So will they go after the medical marijuana dispensaries? Not
directly. They have politicians on their payroll to do it for them.
Unfortunately, I voted for and campaigned for one of those politicians
who now resides in the White House.
Kirk Muse
1741 S. Clearview Ave.
Mesa, AZ 85209
(480) 396-3399
Thank you for considering this letter for publication.
Feel free to edit.
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Subj: 003 LTE: Re: 'Officials should allow Arizona's medical marijuana law?
From: Kirk Muse <>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:55:10 -0700
To the Editor of The East Valley Tribune:
I'm writing about Mike Ross's thoughtful letter: "Officials should allow
Arizona's medical marijuana law? (8-26-12).
The Mexican drug cartels don't want any legal marijuana sold anywhere in
Arizona or in fact, anywhere in the U. S. So are they going to bomb the
marijuana dispensaries? No.
They have a much easier way to put them out of business. They have
politicians on their payroll put the dispensaries out of business with a
stroke of a pen.
Of course, politicians will say that they idea of them being of the
payroll of the drug cartels is ridiculous and crazy.
Al Capone and the alcohol cartels had hundreds of politicians on their
payroll.
Is it unreasonable to suspect that the drug cartels of today are
following in the footsteps of the alcohol cartels? It's obvious that
medical marijuana dispensaries were making a major dent in the income of
the drug cartels.
Kirk Muse
1741 S. Clearview Ave.
Mesa, AZ 85209
(480) 396-3399
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