Pubdate: Fri, 28 Feb 2014
Source: Concord Monitor (NH)
Copyright: 2014 Monitor Publishing Company
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Author: Stan White

WHY TO LEGALIZE POT

For the Monitor

Re "Governors: Legalized pot buzz just smoke" (Monitor Nation & World 
section, Feb. 23):

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is correct: Tax revenue is the wrong 
reason for legalizing recreational marijuana. Legalize the plant for 
the correct reasons: While illegal, it causes underground markets, 
cartels, increased hard drug addiction rates, contempt for drug laws, 
eroded constitutional rights, loss of freedom, escalated prison 
populations, corrupt politicians, race discrimination, prohibition of 
free American farmers from growing hemp (even though communist 
Chinese farmers grow it), trillions of dollars in wasted taxes, 
deceiving citizens and the listing is growing faster than the plant 
itself. Just be sure to get the job done.

STAN WHITE

Dillon, Colo.
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