Pubdate: Sun, 16 Mar 2014
Source: Casper Star-Tribune (WY)
Copyright: 2014 Lee Enterprises
Contact:  http://www.trib.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/765
Author: Lu Martinez

LET'S NOT BE THE LAST TO LEGALIZE POT

Editor:

Marijuana should be legal throughout the entire United States. Why 
would we not want to know that people are getting a good product at a 
fair price, create jobs (not prison guard positions), and apply a 
fair tax to the product. We know that a good portion of the public is 
using and going to continue using marijuana anyway. People can say it 
is a gateway drug and if indeed that is the case, then alcohol should 
be illegal as well. If you did a poll I am quite sure that most young 
people experimented with alcohol before they did with marijuana. 
Wyoming's Legislature is more worried about their "holier than thou" 
image than they are thinking about doing what is right. Let us be the 
first to legalize it rather than one of the last like we usually are.

LU MARTINEZ, Gillette
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