Pubdate: Tue, 01 May 2012 Source: Arizona Daily Wildcat (AZ Edu) Copyright: 2012 Arizona Daily Wildcat Contact: http://wildcat.arizona.edu/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/725 Author: Allen Carlisle http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/index.php/article/2012/05/mailbag_may_1 IN RESPONSE TO THE APRIL 30 ARTICLE titled "Recreational marijuana smoking unimportant, should remain illegal": What a joke of an article you wrote about legalizing marijuana. Marijuana Prohibition is an outrage, and the biggest anti-libertarian law I have ever seen. Why is the government regulating what is put into our bodies? Marijuana users ARE NOT infringing on anyone else's right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. In these harsh economic times, billions of dollars are wasted on penalizing/incarcerating marijuana users for victimless "crimes." Money could be saved for the American taxpayers by making marijuana legal and taxing the sale of this medicinal plant. Your biased rhetoric against marijuana is totally false. You have no clue what you are talking about when you say that it will lead to nothing but negative impacts. I wish you would re-evaluate and help to end this irrational prohibition. - - Allen Carlisle, Vicksburg, Miss. - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom