Pubdate: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 Source: Glenwood Springs Post Independent (CO) Copyright: 2011 Glenwood Springs Post Independent Contact: http://drugsense.org/url/ys97xJAX Website: http://www.postindependent.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/821 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v11/n667/a02.html Author: Stan White THE REAL "FARCE" The real "farce" (Letter to the editor: Pot dispensaries are a farce, Nov. 20) is requiring sick people to pay extortion money to government for protection from police for using the relatively safe God-given plant (see the first page of the Bible) cannabis (marijuana). The real farce is in caging responsible adult humans for using the plant (and it's commendable Ed Rosenberg has no issue with what an adult does in their home with marijuana). The real farce is that free American farmers may not grow hemp but communist Chinese farmers can and America's greatest foreign debt is with China. Cannabis prohibition, persecution and extermination is the real farce and one of America's worst policy failures in history. In 2012, Colorado citizens may well get another golden opportunity to vote and legalize the plant cannabis and end the farce. God knows cannabis should have never been prohibited from the beginning. Truthfully, Stan White Dillon - --- MAP posted-by: Matt