Pubdate: Fri, 21 Mar 2014
Source: Oklahoma Gazette (OK)
Copyright: 2014 Gazette Media, Inc.
Contact:  http://www.okgazette.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/317
Author: Kirk Muse
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v14/n149/a04.html

WHY IS THIS STILL ILLEGAL?

I'm writing about Tim Farley's story "Prohibition, not pot, is the 
problem" (Feb. 10, Oklahoma Gazette online).

I'd like to add that the cannabis legalization issue is not whether 
cannabis is completely safe for everybody, including children and adolescents.

It is not. The issue is freedom of choice for adults. Children have 
died from eating peanuts and peanut butter, but we don't cage peanut 
growers, sellers or consumers.

And the voters of Colorado and Washington state have decided that we 
should not cage cannabis growers, sellers or consumers.

Oklahoma adults have the freedom of choice of whether or not to 
consume legal alcohol. Shouldn't they have the same freedom of choice 
regarding legal cannabis?

- - Kirk Muse

Mesa, Arizona
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