Pubdate: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 Source: Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ) Copyright: 2011 The Arizona Republic Contact: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/sendaletter.html Website: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/24 Author: Roy Miller PROHIBITION IS REPEATING ITSELF Saturday is the anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition in 1933. There was recently an outstanding Ken Burns documentary on PBS about the struggles before, during and after Prohibition that caused me to draw continual parallels to the way we treat marijuana today. The violent crime, the hypocrisy, the ruined lives, the corruption of our political system, the negative spillover effects on neighboring countries and many other parts of the documentary all remind me of what is being replayed today with respect to marijuana. I can't help recalling the lines of a familiar song: "When will they ever learn? When will they ... ever ... learn?" - -- Roy Miller, Phoenix - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom